Taliafero's book combines a staggering breadth of research with a careful attention to organization and development the result is an extremely helpful map of the conceptual landscape in contemporary philosophy of religion. Patricia Sayre, Saint Mary's College

Taliafero has written a lively, engaging introduction to contemporary philosophy of religion. It combines current 'front-burner' issues with a solid background of traditional themes, and incorporates welcome attention to non-Western religious traditions. William Hasker, Huntington College

Taliafero provides and open-minded and stimulating introduction which will encourage readers to form their own views about some of the deepest issues confronting human beings. Roger Trigg, University of Warwick

While he places at the center of the book the philosophical articulation of theism and theistic themes, author Taliafero develops these themes in conversation with four other living world religion, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, an Buddhism, and with various atheistic or agnostic challenges to them. This is first-rate book and will be useful in the classroom. Michael Beaty, Baylor University

Acknowledgments x

Introduction 1

1 Religious Beliefs 14

2 Religious Practices and Pictures of Reality 36

3 Divine Power 61

4 Materialism, Positivism and God 83

5 Divine Intelligence and the Structure of the Cosmos 106

6 The Transcendence of the Sacred 143

7 God, Values, and Pluralism 189

8 Evidence, Experience, and God 246

9 The Problem of Evil and the Prospects of Good 299

10 Theism and Naturalism350

Bibliography 394

Index 421