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"More advanced students will find this a valuable collection." Jeff Astley, Theology
"This book will help fill the need of those who want a collection of brief and generally interesting samples taken from what the editors find important in recent literature." David A. Pailin, The Expository Times
"Representative in content, broad in scope, coherent in structure, rich in information, this superbly crafted anthology is a very useful and highly interesting presentation of the philosophy of religion. It may well become the standard anthology in this field." Keith Yandell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Based on a variety of topics addressed and approaches taken by the essays' authors, as well as the quality of the selections, there is not a better collection for an upper-division philosophy of religion course to be found." Jon Kvanvig, Texas A & M University
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This book contains a collection of the essential readings treating both classic and contemporary issues in philosophy of religion.
In addition to topics such as arguments for God's existence, the problem of evil, and divine attributes, it contains articles on divine hiddenness, the nature of revelation, and the doctrine of hell. As a result, this is an ideal text for use in courses on philosophy of religion and metaphysics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The text gives special attention to very recent work in philosophy of religion and includes a section devoted to multi-cultural perspectives.
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Excellent Collection of Essays,
This review is from: Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions (Philosophy: The Big Questions) (Paperback)
Philosophy of Religion: the Big Questions edited by Stump and Murray provides a collection of essays discussing a range of important questions pertaining to the philosophy of religion. The book examines issues such as the problem of evil, the hiddeness of God and the nature of God.In general, I found the selection of essays to be well balanced and illuminating. The selections are successful in providing a brief but well-rounded discussion of the key issues. In particular the essays by Alvin Plantinga were outstanding. This book makes an excellent introduction to this field of study. My only criticism is that a couple of the selections could have been stronger. First, the essays by Swinburne are rather weak - there are better available. Second, the piece refuting the cosmological argument by Rowe is interesting, but a bit dated and begs a response in light of the tremendous amount of discussion that has occurred in this area of late. I think most folks who are familiar with this argument would agree that something from Bill Craig would be appropriate. This might have been a space issue, however,I sense Craig may have been excluded because of his association with US evangelicals - not a politically correct group in contemporary academia. Overall this is the best anthology within the field of philosophy of religion that I have come across. I Highly recommend it to all readers interested in Philosophy of religion regardless of their subject matter knowledge.
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In the Western theistic traditions, God is regarded as unique, unlike any other thing that exist. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cautious simplicity, morally unsurpassable world, actuality cursor, relevant evidential challenge, existent individual thing, been dependent beings, creatable worlds, morally significant manner, modal ontological argument, amoral pain, congenial epistemic environment, unsurpassable worlds, omnipotent being creates, significant negative evidential relation, true eighty years, liquid wine bottle, friendly atheism, undefeated defeater, normal scientific explanation, nonpropositional evidence, atemporal duration, threat imminence, lawn this afternoon, four possible worlds, epistemic parity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Alvin Plantinga, Notre Dame, David Hume, Oxford University Press, Peter van Inwagen, Cornell University Press, Eleonore Stump, Jesus Christ, Richard Swinburne, Thomas Aquinas, Clarendon Press, New Testament, William Rowe, Norman Kretzmann, Philosophical Review, Clifford's Other Principle, Possible World Two, American Philosophical Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Great Pumpkin, Religious Studies, Grand Rapids, John Hick New!
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In the Western theistic traditions, God is regarded as unique, unlike any other thing that exist. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cautious simplicity, morally unsurpassable world, actuality cursor, relevant evidential challenge, existent individual thing, been dependent beings, creatable worlds, morally significant manner, modal ontological argument, amoral pain, congenial epistemic environment, unsurpassable worlds, omnipotent being creates, significant negative evidential relation, true eighty years, liquid wine bottle, friendly atheism, undefeated defeater, normal scientific explanation, nonpropositional evidence, atemporal duration, threat imminence, lawn this afternoon, four possible worlds, epistemic parity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Alvin Plantinga, Notre Dame, David Hume, Oxford University Press, Peter van Inwagen, Cornell University Press, Eleonore Stump, Jesus Christ, Richard Swinburne, Thomas Aquinas, Clarendon Press, New Testament, William Rowe, Norman Kretzmann, Philosophical Review, Clifford's Other Principle, Possible World Two, American Philosophical Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Great Pumpkin, Religious Studies, Grand Rapids, John Hick New!
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- Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings by William L. Rowe on 11 pages
- Alvin Plantinga (Profiles) by H. Tomberlin on 9 pages
- The Ethics of Belief by A. J. Burger on 5 pages
- Philosophy of Religion (4th Edition) by John H. Hick on 4 pages
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- On the Meaning of Life (Thinking in Action) by John Cottingham in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Philosophy of Religion: A Reader and Guide by William Lane Craig in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- On the Meaning of Life (Thinking in Action) by John Cottingham in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality: The Big Questions (Philosophy: The Big Questions) by Naomi Zack in Front Matter
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