Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (Hardcover)

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This anthology contains 70 readings on nine central topics in Western philosophy of religion. It incorporates scholarship by philosophers such as Michael Martin, Alvin Plantinga and Hugh McCann. This second edition features 14 new articles and a new topical section on religious pluralism.

About the Author

Louis Paul Pojman grew up in Cicero, Illinois in the 1940s and 50s. He attended Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary, from which he received a MA and PhD in Religion. In 1969 he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and in 1970 a Rockefeller Fellow at Hamburg University. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Oxford University in 1997. His first position was at the University of Notre Dame, after which he taught at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Mississippi, where for three years he served as the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. In 1995 he accepted an offer to become Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has recently been a Visiting Professor at Brigham Young University in Utah and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. Louis Pojman is the author or editor of over 30 books and 80 articles. He has won several research and teaching awards, including the Burlington Northern Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship (1988) and the Outstanding Scholar/Teacher in the Humanities at the University of Mississippi (1994). He and his wife are avid hikers, bikers, and environmentalists (life-time members of the Sierra Club). They have two children. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 648 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company; 2nd edition (August 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534205321
• ISBN-13: 978-0534205324
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,771,122 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A VERY WELL BALANCED ANTHOLOGY, September 26, 1998

By A Customer

Pojman covers all the essential arguments from both theist and atheists. He covers the traditional arguments in great detail, the argument from religious experience, the problem of evil, the attributes of God, miracles and revelation, death and immorality, faith and reason, and religion and ethics. Essays are used from all the great minds in the history of philosophy - Aquinas, Anselm, Augustine, Plato, Hume, Kant, Plantinga, Leibniz, Hick, Swineburne, Mackie, Russell, Flew, Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, Pascal, etc. If you are a serious student of the Philosophy of Religion then you should NOT be without this volume. It would be a great addition to anyones philosophical collection.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent collection, December 14, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (Hardcover)

I am an undergraduate, and I have to say, a found this to be an excellent collection of essays. It covers theism and atheism, and the breadth of philosophers it covers is almost overwhelming. It has works from Plato, Kierkegaard and more recent philosophers such as Mackie.
I did think that Pojman's comments and essays were well done and very useful, both for study and otherwise. From a student who is genuinely concerned with the question of religeon, I would like to thank Pojman for this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Comparative in the Religious sense, but Philosophical, September 9, 2005

By	Joshua Nas "sac student-HRS" (Sacramento, Ca USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (Paperback)

Most people think that at first it is a book comparing various Religions philosophies, this is a misconception. It is a book which discusses the reasons for belief, or disbelief, of various aspects of Religious Thought. Such subjects include: the existence of the big G, the immortality of the human soul, the problem of evil, cosmological arguments, and other various point-counterpoints. To tell you the truth, whether you are a believer or disbeliever a person should be aware of these arguments by reason so they may be more clear as to what they really believe. If you have a class with this book I reccomend looking more into the text than the teacher even assigns, this is one that I myself will keep.