The History of Western Philosophy of Religion: Five-volume set [Hardcover]

Graham Oppy (Author), Nick Trakakis (Author)

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Publication Date: November 15, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0195394283 | ISBN-13: 978-0195394283 | Edition: 1ST

The most comprehensive history of the philosophy of religion, the History of Western Philosophy of Religion covers Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century philosophy of religion. Written by an international range of leading scholars, the entries, each devoted to a major philosopher of religion, have been chosen to reflect the breadth and variety of perspectives in the history of Western philosophy of religion. In addition to entries on major philosophers and schools, thinkers whose work has greatly influenced the philosophy of religion--notably Darwin, Marx and Freud--are also included.


Designed to be accessible to a wide range of readers, the entries focus on the key themes in a clear and jargon-free fashion. Each volume works independently to provide an overview of a period, opening with an introduction to the period and concluding with a timeline of major events and full bibliography. With 100 essays sweeping across the history of Western philosophy of religion in five volumes, this set is an indispensable resource for anyone conducting research or teaching in one of the most exciting and vibrant fields in philosophy.

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About the Author

Graham Oppy is a Professor in the School of Philosophy & Bioethics at Monash University in Australia. He has served on editorial boards for Philo, AJP, and Philosophy Compass.
Nick Trakakis teaches Philosophy and Religious Studies at Monash and Deakin Universities, and he is a co-founder of the Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association.

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• Hardcover: 1600 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1ST edition (November 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195394283
• ISBN-13: 978-0195394283
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CONTENTS:

Volume 1: Ancient Philosophy and Religion

Introduction, Georg Boys-Stones; 1. Pythagoras, Constantinos Macris; 2. Xenophanes, James H. Lesher; 3. Socrates and Plato, Mark McPherran; 4. Aristotle, Sarah Broadie; 5. Epicurus, John Penwill; 6. The Stoics, Tad Brennan; 7. Cicero, Margaret Graver; 8. Philo of Alexandria, David T. Runia; 9. The Apostle Paul, Stanley K. Stowers; 10. Plutarch of Chaeroneia, John Dillon; 11. Sextus Empiricus, Richard Bett; 12. Early Christian Philosophers, Eric Osborn; 13. Origen, Jeffrey Hause; 14. Plotinus, Lloyd P. Gerson; 15. Porphyry and Iamblichus, Mark Edwards; 16. The Cappadocians, Anthony Meredith; 17. Augustine, Gareth B. Matthews; 18. Proclus, Dirk Baltzly; 19. Pseudo-Dionysius, Kevin Corrigan and Michael Harrington

Volume 2: Medieval Philosophy and Religion

Introduction, G. R. Evans; 1. Boethius, John Marenbon; 2. Johannes Scottus Eriugena, Dermot Moran; 3. Al-Farabi, Syed Nomanul Haq; 4. Avicenna, Jon McGinnis; 5. Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Williams; 6. Al-Ghazali, Michael Marmura; 7. Peter Abelard, Constant J. Mews; 8. Bernard of Clairvaux, Brian Patrick McGuire; 9. Averroes, Gerhard Endress; 10. Moses Maimonides, Charles Manekin; 11. Roger Bacon, Jeremiah Hackett; 12. Thomas Aquinas, John F. Wippel; 13. John Duns Scotus, Richard Cross; 14. William Ockham, Gyula Klima; 15. Gersonides, Tamar Rudavsky; 16. John Wyclif, Stephen E. Lahey; 17. Nicholas of Cusa, Jasper Hopkins; 18. Erasmus of Rotterdam, James McConica

Volume 3: Early Modern Philosophy and Religion

Introduction, Peter Anstey; 1. Niccolo Machiavelli, Mary G. Dietz and Ilya Winham; 2. Martin Luther, Theodor Dieter; 3. John Calvin, Michael Sudduth; 4. Michel de Montaigne, Marc Foglia; 5. Francisco Suarez, Bernardo J. Cantens; 6. Thomas Hobbes, Sharon Lloyd; 7. Rene Descartes, Gary Steiner; 8. Ralph Cudworth, Benjamin Carter; 9. Blaise Pascal, William David Wetsel; 10. Baruch Spinoza, Michael A. Rosenthal; 11. John Locke, Victor Nuovo; 12. Gottfried Leibniz, Jack D. Davidson; 13. George Berkeley, Roomet Jakapi; 14. Voltaire, David Williams; 15. The Deists, Peter Byrne; 16. Jonathan Edwards, Sang Hyun Lee; 17. Thomas Reid, Ryan Nichols; 18. David Hume, Paul Draper; 19. Denis Diderot, David Adams; 20. Immanuel Kant, Eckart Förster; 21. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, David Bell; 22. William Paley, Roger White

Volume 4: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Religion

Introduction, Douglas Hedley and Chris Ryan; 1. Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Yolanda D. Estes; 2. Friedrich Schleiermacher, Theodore Vial; 3. G. W. F. Hegel, Paul Redding; 4. Friedrich Schelling, Michael Vater; 5. Arthur Schopenhauer, Robert Wicks; 6. Auguste Comte, H. S. Jones; 7. John Henry Newman, Ian Ker; 8. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Russell Goodman; 9. Ludwig Feuerbach, Van A. Harvey; 10. John Stuart Mill, Chin Liew Ten; 11. Charles Darwin, Michael Ruse; 12. Soren Kierkegaard, William McDonald; 13. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Roland Boer; 14. Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel; 15. Edward Caird, Colin Tyler; 16. Charles. S. Peirce, Douglas Anderson; 17. Friedrich Nietzsche, Clancy Martin; 18. Josiah Royce, Kelly A. Parker; 19. Sigmund Freud, Adolf Grunbaum; 20. Emile Durkheim, Philip Mellor

Volume 5: Twentieth-Century Philosophy and Religion

Introduction, Charles Taliaferro; 1. William James, Richard M. Gale; 2. Henri Bergson, John Mullarkey; 3. Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, Lewis S. Ford; 4. John Dewey, Steven C. Rockefeller; 5. Bertrand Russell, A. C. Grayling; 6. Max Scheler, Quentin Smith; 7. Martin Buber, Tamra Wright; 8. Jacques Maritain, Peter A. Redpath; 9. Karl Jaspers, Kurt Salamun; 10. Paul Tillich, William L. Rowe; 11. Karl Barth, Paul Dafydd Jones; 12. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Genia Schoenbaumsfeld; 13. Martin Heidegger, Laurence Paul Hemming; 14. Emmanuel Levinas, Jeffrey Kosky; 15. Simone Weil, Stephen Plant; 16. A. J. Ayer, Graham Macdonald; 17. William P. Alston, Daniel Howard-Snyder; 18. John Hick, Paul Badham; 19. Mary Daly, Anne-Marie Korte; 20. Jacques Derrida, Kevin Hart; 21. Alvin Plantinga, James F. Sennett; 22. Richard Swinburne, Bruce Langtry; 23. Late-Twentieth-Century Atheism, Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis