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Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions (Philosophy: The Big Questions)

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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.