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Philosophy of religion |
Can language adequately describe God? What might God be like? How have scholars argued that God exists? What about evil? Where does scientific discovery leave religion?
In this section you'll find articles on language, the nature of God, including analysis of beliefs about God's action in the world such as miracles and religious experience, of concepts of life after death and the meaning of prayer, and arguments for the existence of God, including ontological, cosmological and design arguments, the place of religious experience and miracles in supporting belief, the place of authority in supporting beliefs and evaluation of probability / cumulative arguments. There are also articles on the problem of evil and suffering, and on the place of faith and reason, including the relationship between science and religion, which is examined in more detail here.
Watch Richard Swinburne, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford, answer the question: "Why study the philosophy of religion?"
Other resources include
Magazines
Dialogue (a full archive of past articles available)
Videos
Dawkins' various documentaries, including The root of all evil
Richard Dawkins in a panel discussion on God, Philosophy, religion (8 March 2010)
Professor Alister McGrath in conversation with Dawkins
William Lane Craig defends arguments for God's existence
Professor Keith Ward responds to Dawkins
Professor Terry Eagleton discusses Faith and Reason at Yale University
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Confessions
Augustine
In order to give people the freedom to come to God, God creates them at a distance.
Evil and the God of Love
John Hick
We are nihilistic thoughts that pop into God's head ... our world is only a bad mood of God, a bad day of his.
W. Benjamin, Selected Writings, Vol 2, Harvard University Press, 1999
Franz Kafka
Last of all he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place, and not in another; and he will contemplate him as he is.
Book VII of The Republic, The Allegory of the Cave
Plato
FURTHER READING
Peter Vardy
(Fount, 3rd ed 1999)
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
Brian Davies
(OUP, 3rd ed 2003)
Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology
Brian Davies
(OUP, 2000)
The Philosophy of Religion
John Hick
(Pearson Education, 4th ed 1999)
The Vocation of the Catholic Philosopher: from Maritain to John Paul II
ed John P Hittinger
(CUAP, 2011) Read The Tablet's review here
The Nature of God
Gerard Hughes
(Routledge, 1995)
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James
(Penguin Classics, 1983)
The Question of God: An Introductory Commentary and Sourcebook
Michael Palmer
(Routledge 2001)
The Existence of God
Richard Swinburne
(Clarendon, 2004)
The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God
J L Mackie
(OUP, 1982)
The Puzzle of Evil
Peter Vardy
(Fount, 3rd ed 1999)
Evil and the God of Love
John Hick
(Palgrave Macmillan, reissued 2010)
The Problem of Evil
Oxford Readings in Philosophy, ed Adams & Adams
(OUP 1990)
Reason and Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
ed Petersen et al
(OUP, 2008)
Pragmatism and Other Writings
William James
(Penguin Classics, 2003)
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