Philosophy of Religion, (4 Volume Set)

The past forty years or so have witnessed a renaissance in the philosophy of religion. New tools (modal logic, probability theory, and so on) and new historical research have prompted many thinkers to take a fresh look at old topics (God’s existence, the problem of evil, faith and reason, and the like). Moreover, sophisticated examinations of contentious new issues, such as the problem of religious diversity or the role of emotions and other non-evidential factors in shaping rationally held religious beliefs, have also emerged.

Addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of scholarly literature, Philosophy of Religion is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Philosophy. Edited by a leading scholar, it is a four-volume collection which brings together key examples of the most important recent work, together with carefully selected historical pieces needed to understand them. Volume I focuses on concepts of the divine while Volume II explores arguments for and against the existence of a divine reality, with special attention to the problem of evil, the problem of divine hiddenness, and the case for naturalism. Volume III and the first part of Volume IV are devoted to broadly epistemic issues: the cognitive value of religious experience; the proper role of evidence in the formation of religious belief; the nature of justified religious belief; and pragmatic arguments for religious belief. The remainder of Volume IV introduces some of the best recent work on religious diversity, tolerance, and the public role of religion in a pluralistic society.

The Philosophy of Religion is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research resource.

Volume I

Part 1 : Concepts of God
Chapter 1 : The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Anselm : Faith and Philosophy
Chapter 2 : Buddha and God: A Comparative Study in Ideas about Maximal Greatness : Journal of Religion
Chapter 3 : Concepts of God : Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Part 2 : God’s Knowledge
Chapter 4 : Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action : The Philosophical Review
Chapter 5 : On Ockham’s Way Out : Faith and Philosophy
Chapter 6 : The Molinist Account of Providence : Divine Providence: The Molinist Account
Chapter 7 : Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom are Compatible
Chapter 8 : The Being that Knew Too Much : International Journal for Philosophy of Religion

Part 3 : God’s Power
Chapter 9 : Omnipotence and God’s Ability to Sin : American Philosophical Quarterly
Chapter 10 : Omnipotence : Philosophy
Chapter 11 : God isn’t Free : Can God be Free?
Chapter 12 : Rowe on God’s Freedom and God’s Grace
Chapter 13 : Theistic Replies to Rowe’s a Priori Argument for ATheism : Philo

Part 4 : God’s ‘Metaphysical’ Attributes
Chapter 14 : Is God Timeless : God and Timelessness
Chapter 15 : Divine Simplicity : Does God Have a Nature?
Chapter 16 : God as Supreme, Yet Indebted to All : The Divine Relativity
Chapter 17 : Eternity, Awareness, and Action : Faith and Philosophy
Chapter 18 : Simplicity and Immutability in God : International Philosophical Quarterly

Part 5 : Onto-Theology
Chapter 19 : Thomas Aquinas and Onto-Theo-logy, Mystics: Presence and Aporia
Chapter 20 : Aquinas and Onto-Theology : American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

Volume II

Part 6 : The Ontological Argument
Chapter 21 : Anselm and Actuality
Chapter 22 : The Ontological Argument : God, Freedom and Evil
Chapter 23 : Ontological Arguments
Chapter 24 : The Uses of Parody and The Argument’s Value : Ontological Arguments and Belief in God

Part 7 : The Cosmological Argument
Chapter 25 : Two Criticisms of The Cosmological Argument : The Monist
Chapter 26 : The Cosmological Argument : Man and World
Chapter 27 : A New Cosmological Argument : Religious Studies,
Chapter 28 : On "A New Cosmological Argument" : Religious Studies
Chapter 29 : Insufficient Reason in The "New Cosmological Argument" : Religious Studies
Chapter 30 : A Response to Oppy and Davey and Clifton : Religious Studies

Part 8 : Design Arguments
Chapter 31 : The Argument from The Fine-Tuning of The Universe, Physical Cosmology and Philosophy
Chapter 32 : Design Arguments : Metaphysics
Chapter 33 : The Design Argument, The Blackwell Guide to The Philosophy of Religion

Part 9 : The Problem of Evil
Chapter 34 : The Free Will Defense : Evil and The God of Love
Chapter 35 : The Free Will Defense : God, Freedom, and Evil
Chapter 36 : Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theists
Chapter 37 : The Evidential Argument from Evil: A Second Look, The Evidential Argument from Evil
Chapter 38 : The Problem of Evil, The Problem of Air, and The Problem of Silence, Philosophical Perspectives 5: Philosophy of Religion
Chapter 39 : Redemptive Suffering: A Christian Approach to The Problem of Evil, Rationality, Religious Belief, and Moral Commitment
Chapter 40 : Cosmic Fine-Tuning and Terrestrial Suffering: Parallel Problems for Naturalism and Theism : American Philosophical Quarterly

Part 10 : Divine Hiddenness
Chapter 41 : God’s Hiddenness : Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason
Chapter 42 : Jonathan Edwards and The Hiddenness of God, Divine Hiddenness: New Essays

Volume III

Part 11 : Religious Experience
Chapter 43 : The Argument from Religious Experience : The Existence of God
Chapter 44 : The Cognitive Status of Mystical Experience : Mysticism: A Study of its Nature, Cognitive Value, and Moral Implications
Chapter 45 : Is Religious Belief Rational?, The Life of Religion
Chapter 46 : Religious Experience Arguments : On The Nature and Existence of God

Part 12 : Faith and Reason
Chapter 47 : The Migration of The Theistic Arguments: From Natural Theology to Evidentialist Apologetics, Rationality, Religious Belief, and Moral Commitment
Chapter 48 : Is Belief in God Properly Basic?
Chapter 49 : Proper Basicality : Religious Belief and Religious Skepticism
Chapter 50 : Warranted Belief in God : Warranted Christian Belief
Chapter 51 : Cumulative Case Arguments : The Justification of Religious Belief
Chapter 52 : Religious Experience, Theological Argument, and Rhetoric : Faith and Philosophy

Part 13 : Religious Language
Chapter 53 : Functionalism and Theological Language : American Philosophical Quarterly
Chapter 54 : Philosophy and Religious Language : The Journal of Religion
Chapter 55 : Metaphor, Reference, and Realism : Metaphor and Religious Language

Volume IV

Part 14 : Pragmatic Arguments for Religious Belief
Chapter 56 : Pragmatic Reasons for Belief, Gambling on God: Essays on Pascal’s Wager
Chapter 57 : The Logic of Pascal’s Wager : American Philosophical Quarterly
Chapter 58 : Pascal’s Wager and Infinite Utilities : Analysis
Chapter 59 : Waging War on Pascal’s Wager : The Philosophical Review
Chapter 60 : A Qualified Defense of The Wager : Pascal’s Wager: Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God
Chapter 61 : Moral Objections to Pascalian Wagering, Gambling on God: Essays on Pascal’s Wager

Part 15 : Religious Diversity and Rational Religious Belief
Chapter 62 : The Pluralistic HypoThesis : An Interpretation of Religion
Chapter 63 : Religious Pluralism and Religious Reference : Prolegomena to Religious Pluralism: Reference and Realism in Religion
Chapter 64 : Pluralism: A Defense of Religious Exclusivism, The Rationality of Belief and The Plurality of Faith
Chapter 65 : Hick’s Religious Pluralism and "Reformed Epistemology": A Middle Ground : Faith and Philosophy
Chapter 66 : Competing Religious Claims, The Blackwell Guide to The Philosophy of Religion

Part 16 : Tolerance and The Public Role of Religion
Chapter 67 : Locke: Toleration, and The Rationality of Persecution, Justifying Toleration
Chapter 68 : Religious Diversity and Religious Toleration : International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
Chapter 69 : Liberal Democracy and The Place of Religion in Politics, Religion in The Public Square
Chapter 70 : The Idea of Public Reason : Political Liberalism
Chapter 71 : Audi on Religion, Politics, and Liberal Democracy, Religion in The Public Square
Chapter 72 : Why We Should Reject What Liberalism Tells Us, Religion and Contemporary Liberalism