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Philosophy of Religion
Edited by Thomas Senor (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)
Assistant editors: Tyler Journeaux, Jaipreet Mattu
About this topic
| Summary | The philosophy of religion is the philosophical exploration of religious matters. Conceptual analyses of the varying conceptions of God, philosophical arguments for and against the existence of a deity (or deities), epistemological concerns about the rationality of religious belief, philosophical discussions of the theological claims of religious doctrines, and questions of life after death are among the many topics at home in the philosophy of religion. |
| Key works | While the philosophy of religion in the west dates back to the works of Plato (e.g,. Burnet 1977) and Aristotle (Aristotle & Lawson-Tancred 1998), it was in the medieval period that interest in religious matters became central in the work of philosophers. Augustine 2006, Aquinas 1273, and Anselm 1979 are classics from that period.The classic from the modern area is Gaskin 1998. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the philosophy of religion came out of hibernation. Flew et al 1964 is a collection in which religious language is considered in light of the verificationism that was rampant at the time. Among the key works published in the final quarter of the century were Hick 1966, Plantinga 1974, Swinburne 1977, Mackie 1982, and Alston 1991. |
| Introductions | A fine introduction to the subject that is historically informed and yet issue-oriented is Rowe 2001. |
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Arguments for Theism (2,394 | 158)Daniel von Wachter
Cosmological Arguments for Theism (590 | 260)
Design Arguments for Theism (356 | 279)
Moral Arguments for Theism (148 | 47)
Divine Attributes (2,865 | 100)Kenneth L. Pearce
Divine Eternity (246)
Divine Goodness (235)
Divine Omnipresence (36)
Divine Personhood (29)
Divine Providence (297)
Divine Immutability (41)
Epistemology of Religion (6,506 | 897)Matthew A. Benton
Epistemology of Religion, Misc (1,129)
Revelation (157)
Specific Religions (24,814 | 1,650)
Buddhism (4,091)
Hinduism (223)
Islam (4,715)
Judaism (5,596)
Other Religions (94)
Religious Topics (17,369 | 2,253)
Atheism and Agnosticism (1,183 | 541)
Prayer (383)
Prophecy (167)
Religious Diversity (702 | 370)
Religious Topics, Misc (237)
Philosophy of Religion, Miscellaneous (2,588 | 845)
History/traditions: Philosophy of Religion
- Feminist Philosophy of Religion (146)
- Aquinas: Philosophy of Religion (55 | 11)
- Medieval Philosophy of Religion (554)
- Berkeley: Philosophy of Religion (171 | 1)
- Hobbes: Philosophy of Religion (205 | 139)
- Hume: Philosophy of Religion (914 | 593)
- Locke: Philosophy of Religion (323 | 1)
- Kant: Philosophy of Religion (915 | 366)
- Leibniz: Philosophy of Religion (750)
- Spinoza: Philosophy of Religion (287 | 130)
- Hegel: Philosophy of Religion (138 | 78)
- Nietzsche: Philosophy of Religion (21)
- Chinese Philosophy of Religion (38)
- Husserl: Philosophy of Religion (51)
- Derrida: Philosophy of Religion (140)
- Zizek: Philosophy of Religion (97)
- Continental Philosophy of Religion (3,921 | 3,921)
- Philosophy for Children: Religion and Spirituality (14)
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- Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God.Alvin Plantinga & Nicholas Wolterstorff (eds.) - 1983 - University of Notre Dame Press.
- New Atheism and the Scientistic Turn in the Atheism Movement.Massimo Pigliucci - 2013 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 37 (1):142-153.
- Augustine's Argument for the Existence of God.Hugh Chandler - manuscript
- Simply Impossible: A Case Against Divine Simplicity.R. T. Mullins - 2013 - Journal of Reformed Theology 7 (2):181-203.
- God, evil, and suffering.Daniel Howard-Snyder - 1999 - In Michael J. Murray (ed.), Reason for the Hope Within. Eerdmans. pp. 217--237.
- Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions.Jonathan Chimakonam - 2014 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 3 (1):1-167.
- God for All Time: From Theism to Ultimism.J. L. Schellenberg - 2016 - In Andrei A. Buckareff & Yujin Nagasawa (eds.), Alternative Concepts of God: Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
- The modal ontological argument.R. Kane - 1984 - Mind 93 (371):336-350.
- The Rationality of Religious Beliefs.Bryan Frances - 2015 - Think 14 (40):109-117.
- The ontological argument and the devil.Yujin Nagasawa - 2010 - Philosophical Quarterly 60 (238):72-91.
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