Introduction; PART ONE: RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE; Introduction; Religious Experiences, St. Teresa of Jesus; Religious Experiences as the Route of Religion, William James; Religious Experience as the Perception of God, William P. Alston; Religious Experience as Interpretive Accounts, Wayne Proudfoot; Critique of Religious Experience, Michael Martin; A Phenomenological Account of Religious Experience, Merrold Westphal; Suggested Reading; PART TWO: FAITH AND REASON; Introduction; The Harmony of Reason and Revelation, Thomas Aquinas; The Harmony of Philosophy and the Qur'an, Ibn Rushd; The Wager, Blaise Pascal; The Ethics of Belief, William Clifford; The Will to Believe, William James; Truth is Subjectivity, Soren Kierkegaard; Soft Rationalism, William J. Abraham; Suggested Reading; PART THREE: THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES; Introduction; God's Necessary Existence, John Hick; Negative Theology, Moses Maimonides; God is Omnipotent, Thomas Aquinas; Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence, George Mavrodes; Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action, Nelson Pike; God is Timeless, Boethius; God is Everlasting, Nicholas Wolterstorff; God is Creative-Responsive Love, John B. Cobb and David Ray Griffin; Atman is Brahman from the Upanishads; The Concept of God and Feminist Critique, Sarah Coakley; Suggested Reading; PART FOUR: ARGUMENTS ABOUT GOD'S EXISTENCE; Introduction; The Classical Ontological Argument, St. Anselm; Critique of Anselem's Argument, Gaunilo; A Contemporary Modal Version of the Ontological Argument, Alvin Plantinga; The Classical Cosmological Argument, Thomas Aquinas; A Contemporary Version of the Cosmological Argument, Richard Tyler; The Kalam Cosmological Argument, J.P. Moreland; Critique of the Cosmological Argument, J.L. Mackie; The Anthropic Teleological Argument, L. Stafford Betty with Bruce Cordell; A Naturalistic Account of the Universe, Paul Davies; The Moral Argument, C.S. Lewis; Suggested Reading; PART FIVE: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL; Evil is Privation of the Good, St. Augstine; Evil Makes a Strong Case Against God's Existence, David Hume; Evil and Omnipotence, J.L. Mackie; The Free Will Defense, Alvin Plantinga; Soul-Making Theodicy, John Hick; The Evidential Argument from Evil, William Rowe; Suggested Reading; PART SIX: KNOWING GOD WITHOUT ARGUMENTS; Introduction; The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology, Alvin Plantinga; Experience, Proper Basicality, and Belief in God, Robert Pargetter; The Case of the Intellectually Sophisticated Theist, William Hasker; Reformed Epistemology and David Hick's Religious Pluralism, David Basinger; Feminism adn Religious Epistemology, Sarah Coakley; Suggested Reading; PART SEVEN: RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE; Introduction; The Doctrine of Analogy, Thomas Aquinas; The Falsification Debate, Anthony Flew and Basil Mitchell; Religious Language as Symbolic, Paul Tillich; Sexism and God-Talk, Rosemary Radford Ruether; The True Tao is Unspeakable, Lao Tsu; Suggested Reading; PART EIGHT: MIRACLES; Introduction; The Evidence for Miracles is Weak, David Hume; Miracles and Historical Evidence, Richard Swinburne; Miracles and Testimony, J.L. Mackie; Suggested Reading; PART NINE: LIFE AFTER DEATH; The Soul Survives and Functions After Death, H.H. Price; The Soul Needs a Brain to Continue to Function, Richard Swinburne; The Problem With Accounts of Life After Death, Linda Badham; Resurrection of the Person, John Hick; Rebirth, Sri Aurobindo; Suggested Reading; PART TEN: RELIGION AND SCIENCE; Introduction; Two Separate Domains, Stephen Jay Gould; Science Discredits Religion, Richard Dawkins; Theology and Scientific Methodology, Nancy Murphy; Suggested Reading; PART ELEVEN: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY; Introduction; Religious Diversity, Dalai Lama; The Uniqueness of Religious Doctrines, Paul Griffiths; Religious Inclusivism, Karl Rahner; Religious Pluralism, John Hick; Suggested Readings; PART TWELVE: RELIGIOUS ETHICS; Introductions; Which God Ought We to Obey?, Alasdair MacIntyre; Ethics Without Religion, Kai Nelson; Ethics and Natural Law, Thomas Aquinas; Suggested Reading; PART THIRTEEN: PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGICAL DOCTRINES; Introduction; Jesus Christ Was Fully God and Fully Human, Thomas Morris; The Concept of Revelation, George Mavrodes; Why Petition God?, Eleonore Stump; Suggested Reading
