Philosophy of Religion
Arguments for the Existence of God (at The Secular Web)
Mortimer J. Adler
How to Think About God: A Guide for the 20th-Century Pagan (1980).
Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religions and the Unity of Truth (1990).
William P. Alston
"The Ontological Argument Revisited," The Philosophical Review 69 (1960): 452-74.
"Tillich's Conception of a Religious Symbol," in Religious Experience and Truth, ed. Sidney Hook (New York University Press, 1961).
"The Elucidation of Religious Statements," in The Hartshorne Festschrift: Process and Divinity, eds., William Reese and Eugene Freeman (Open Court, 1964): 429-443.
Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Cornell University Press, 1989). Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience (Cornell University Press, 1991).
"The Experiential Basis of Theism"
Anselm
Proslogion
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Contra Gentiles (1259-1264)
Summa Theologica (1265-1273)
-- Whether God Exists?
Robert Audi
(and William Wainwright,eds.) Rationality, Belief, and Moral Commitment (Cornell University Press, 1986).
John Ballie
The Idea of Revelation in Recent Thought (Columbia University Press, 1956).
J. Barnes
The Ontological Argument (Macmillan, 1972).
Richard Bernstein
"Responce to Pope John Paul II's encyclical letter,
Fides et Ratio," Christianity Online (July/Aug., 1999).
William Blackstone
The Problem of Religious Knowledge (Prentice-Hall, 1963),
Brand Blanshard
Reason and Belief (London: George
Allen & Unwin, 1974).
J. M. Bochenski
The Logic of Religion (New York University Press, 1965).
David Braine
The Reality of Time and the Existence of God: The Project of Proving God's Existence (Clarendon Press, 1988).
R. B. Braithwaite
An Empiricist's View of the Nature of Religious Belief (Cambridge University Press, 1955).
C. D. Broad
"Hume's Theory of the Credibility of Miracles," Proc. Aristotelian
Soc. 17 (1916-17): 77-94.
"The Validity of Belief in a Personal God," Hibbert Journal 24 (1925): 32-48. Reprinted in C. D. Broad, Religion, Philosophy and Psychical Research (Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1953).
"Arguments for the Existence of God,"
Journal of Theological Studies 40 (1939): 16-30; 156-67. Reprinted in C. D. Broad, Religion, Philosophy and Psychical Research (Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1953).
"The Present Relations of Science and Religion," Philosophy 14 (1939): 131-54.
Reprinted in C. D. Broad, Religion, Philosophy and Psychical Research (Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1953).
Ernest Brown
"Plantinga, Proper Basicality, and Fideism" (+ annotated bibliography)
E. A. Burtt
Types of Religious Philosophy (Harper and Row, 1951).
Joseph Butler
Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the
Constitution and Nature. (1736).
Cajetan (Thomas De Vio)
The Analogy of Names (1506).
W. K. Clifford
"The Ethics of Belief" in Lectures and Essays (Macmillan, 1879)
Morris R. Cohen
"The Dark Side of Religion" in Religion Today, a Challenging Enigma, ed. Arthur L. Swift, Jr. (1933). Revised version in Morris Cohen, The Faith of a Liberal (1946).
Father F. C. Copleston and Bertrand Russell,
"A Debate on the Argument from Contingency,"
boadcast in 1948 on the Third Program of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Published in Humanitas (Manchester) and reprinted in Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1957).
-- Audio
James W.Cornman
Chapter Five: The Problem of Justifying Belief in God, in James W. Cornman, Keith Lehrer, George S. Pappas, Philosophical Problems and Arguments: An Introduction, 3d edition, 1982. [1st ed., 1968; 2d ed., 1974]
William Lane Craig
The Kalam Cosmological Argument (Macmillan, 1979).
The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz (London: Macmillan, 1980).
"Creation and Big Bang Cosmology," Philosophia Naturalis 31 (1994): 217-224.
"A Response to Grünbaum on Creation and Big Bang Cosmology," Philosophia Naturalis 31 (1994): 237-249.
Reasonable Faith (Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Books, 1994).
Articles --
Debates -- List of Publications
Stephen T. Davis
Logic and The Nature of God (Eerdmans, 1983).
Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion, 2006. Reading of The God Delusion at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia on October 23, 2006. -- video
Root of All Evil? The God Delusion -- video (2006)
The Root of All Evil? Part 2: The Virus of Faith -- video (2006)
The God Delusion: The David Quinn & Richard Dawkins debate - The Ryan Tubridy Show (2006) -- audio
Clement Dore
Theism (Reidel, 1984).
C. J. Ducasse
A Philosophical Scrutiny of Religion (New York: Ronald Press, 1953).
A Critical Examination of the Belief in Life after Death (Thomas, 1961).
Frederick Ferre
Language, Logic and God (Harper and Row, 1969).
Nels Ferre
Evil and the Christian Faith (Harper and Row, 1947).
J. N. Findlay
"Can God's Existence be Disproved?" Mind, April 1948.
Branden Fitelson
(and Elliott Sober)
"Plantinga's Probability Arguments Against Evolutionary Naturalism", Nov. 20, 1997.
Antony Flew
(and Alasdair MacIntyre, ed.) New Essays in Philosophical Theology (Macmillan, 1955).
God and Philosophy (Harper and Row, 1961).
"The Presumption of Atheism," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1972): 29-46.
"Arguments to Design," (1996).
Peter Forrest
God Without the Supernatural: A Defense of Scientific Theism (Cornell University Press, 1996).
"Epistemology of Religion," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion (Anchor Books, 1964).
Richard M. Gale
On the Nature and Existence of God (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Peter Geach
God and the Soul (Routledge, 1969).
Providence and God (Cambridege University Press, 1977).
Douglas R. Geivett
(and Brendan Sweetman, eds.) Contemporary Perspectives on Religion (Oxford University Press, 1992).
Adolf Grünbaum
"The Pseudo-Problem in Physical Cosmology," Philosophy of Science, Vol. 56, No. 3, Sept. 1989, pp. 373-394.
"Pseudo-Creation of the Big Bang." Nature 344 (1990), pp. 821-822.
"Creation as a Pseudo-Explanation in Current Physical Cosmology," Erkenntnis 35 (1991), pp. 233-254.
"Some Comments on William Craig's "Creation and Big Bang Cosmology","
Philosophia Naturalis, Vol. 31, No. 2 (1994), pp. 225-236.
"Theological Misinterpretation of Current Physical Cosmology," Philo, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 15-34, Spring-Summer 1998.
Gary Gutting
Religious Belief and Religious Skepticism (University of Notre Dame Press, 1982).
Errol Harris
Atheism and Theism (Tulane Studies in Philosophy, vol. 26, 1977).
Charles Hartshorne
Anselm's Discovery (Open Court, 1965).
The Logic of Perfection, and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics (Open Court Publishing Company, 1991).
William Hasker
God, Time, and Knowledge (Cornell Univ. Press, 1989).
Paul Helm
Eternal God: A Study of God Without Time (Clarendon Press, 1988).
Ronald Hepburn
Christianity and Paradox (C. A. Watts, 1958).
John Hick
Faith and Knowledge (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1957). Philosophy of Religion (Prentice-Hall, 1963; 3rd edition, 1983). (ed.) The Existence of God (Macmillan, 1964). (ed.) Classical and Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Religion (Prentice-Hall, 1964). Evil and the God of Love (Harper and Row, 1966; revised, 1978).
(ed. and Arthur C. McGill) The Many-Faced Argument (Macmillan, 1967).
Arguments for the Existence of God (Herder and Herder, 1971).
God and the Universe of Faiths (St. Martin's Press, 1973).
Problems of Religious Pluralism (St. Martin's Press, 1985).
An Interpretation of Religion (Macmillan, 1989).
Sidney Hook
"The Quest for "Being"," The Journal of Philosophy (1953). Reprinted in Sidney Hook, The Quest for Being (Dell Publishing Co., 1963), pp. 143-171.
"Modern Knowledge and the Concept of God,"
Commentary (1960). Reprinted in Sidney Hook, The Quest for Being (Dell Publishing Co., 1963), pp. 115-135.
David Hume
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779).
Peter Van Inwagen
Metaphysics (Oxford, 1993).
God Knowledge & and Mystery: Essays in Philosophical Theology
(Cornell Univ Press, 1995)
"Skeptical of the Skeptics": a review of The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith by C.
Stephen Evans
William James
"The Will to Believe" in The Will to Believe and other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897).
The Varieties of Religious Experience: a Study in Human Nature (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1902).
John Paul II (Pope)
Fides et Ratio (encyclical, Sept. 14, 1998)
B. C. Johnson
The Atheist Debater's Handbook (Prometheus Books, 1981).
Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason (trans. Norman Kemp Smith) (1781)
-- Chapter III. The Ideal of Pure Reason [485]
Religion within the Bounds of Mere Reason (1793).
Steven Katz
(ed.) Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis (Oxford University Press, 1978).
Walter Kaufmann
Critique of Religion and Philosophy (1958).
J. Kellenberger
Religious Discovery, Faith and Knowledge (Prentice-Hall, 1972).
Anthony Kenny
The Five Ways: St. Thomas Aquinas' Proofs of God's Existence
(Schocken Books, 1969).
The God of the Philosophers (Oxford Univ. Press, 1979).
Hans Küng
Existiert Gott? (Piper-Verlag, 1978). Does God Exist? (Collins, 1980).
Pope Leo XIII
Ćterni Patris (Encyclical Letter, August 4, 1879)
C. S. Lewis
Miracles (Macmillan, 1963).
H. D. Lewis
Our Experience of God (Allen and Unwin, 1959).
J. L. Mackie
The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and Against the Existence of God, (Oxford Univ Press, 1983). Norman Malcolm
"Anselm's Ontological Argument," The Philosophical Review 69 (1960): 41-62.
"The Groundlessness of Belief," in Reason and Religion, ed. Stuart C. Brown (Cornell University Press, 1977).
C. B. Martin
Religious Belief (Cornell, 1959).
Michael Martin
Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Temple Univ Press, 1990). "The Transcendental Argument for the Nonexistence of God," The New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist (Autumn 1996).
-- See the Martin-Frame Debate
R. M. Martin
Primordiality, Science, and Value (State University of New York Press, 1980).
E. L. Mascall
Existence and Analogy (Longman, 1949).
Terry Richard Mathis
Against John Hick: An Examination of His Philosophy of Religion
(University Press of America, 1985). Wallace I. Matson
The Existence of God (Cornell, 1965).
George Mavrodes
Belief in God (Random House, 1970).
Revelation in Religion (Temple University Press, 1988).
John McTaggart
Some Dogmas of Religion (1906). [
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John Stuart Mill
Three Essay on Religion (1875). [pdf file]
On Nature
Basil Mitchell
(ed.) The Philosophy of Religion (Oxford University Press, 1971).
The Justification of Religion (Macmillan, 1973).
Nancey Murphy
Theology in an Age of Scientific Reasoning (Cornell University Press, 1990).
George Nakhnikian
An Introduction to Philosophy (Alfred A. Knopf, 1967). (see pp. 273-86 on James' "Will to Believe")
Kai Nielsen
On Speaking of God," Theoria 28 (1962).
"Can Faith Validate God-talk?" Theology Today (July, 1963).
"The Primacy of Philosophical Theology," Theology Today (July, 1970).
Contemporary Critiques of Religion (New York: Herder & Herder, 1971).
"Does God Esit? Reflections on Disbelief," Free Inquiry I (Spring, 1981): 21-26.
Philosophy & Atheism: In Defense of Atheism (Buffalo: NY: Prometheus, 1985).
Ethics Without God, Second edition (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1989).
God, Scepticism, and Modernity (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1989).
God and the Grounding of Morality (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1991).
Graham Oppy
Ontological Argument & Belief in God (1995).
"Ontological Arguments" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Rudolf Otto
The Idea of the Holy (Oxford Univ. Press, 1958).
William Paley (1743-1805)
Natural Theology; or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity collected from the Appearances of Nature (1802).
Keith M. Parsons
God and the Burden of Proof: Plantinga, Swinburne, and the Analytic Defense of Theism (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1989).
Blaise Pascal
Pensées (Thoughts) (1660).
Terence Penelhum
Survival and Disembodied Existence (Routledge, 1970).
Religion and Rationality (Random House, 1971).
Immortality (Wadsworth, 1973).
D. Z. Phillips
Faith and Philosophical Enquiry (Routledge, 1970).
Religion without Explanation (Basil Blackwell, 1976).
Nelson Pike
God and Timelessness (Schocken Books, 1970).
Alvin Plantinga,
God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God (Cornell Univ Pr., 1967; reprint 1990).
The Nature of Necessity (1974).
God, Freedom, and Evil (Eerdmans, 1974). "Is Belief in God Properly Basic," Noûs 15 (1981).
(and Nicholas Wolterstorff, eds.) Faith and Rationality (University of Notre Dame Press, 1983).
"Intellectual Sophistication and Basic Belief in God," Faith and Philosophy 3 (1986): 306-12.
Warrant and Proper Function (Oxford Univ Press, 1993).
Warrant: The Current Debate (1993). The Analytic Theist : A Collection of Alvin Plantinga's
Work in Philosophy of Religion, ed. James F. Sennett (Wm B Eerdmans Pub Co., 1998).
"Theism, Atheism, and Rationality"
"Methodological Naturalism?"
"Darwin, Mind and Meaning"
"Responce to Pope John Paul II's encyclical letter,
Fides et Ratio," Christianity Online (July/Aug., 1999).
Louis Pojman
(ed.) Philosophy of Religion (Wadsworth, 1987).
V. Preller
Divine Science and the Science of God (Princeton, 1968).
Philip Quinn
"In Search of the Foundations of Theism," Faith and Philosophy 2 (1985): 469-86.
J. H. Randall, Jr.
The Role of Knowledge in Western Religion (Beacon Press, 1958).
Bruce Reichenbach
Evil and A Good God (Fordham University Press, 1982).
Nicholas Rescher
Pascal's Wager: A Study of Practical Reasoning in Philosophical Theology (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985).
James F. Ross
Philosophical Theology (Bobbs-Merrill, 1969).
Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Macmillan, 1969).
William L. Rowe
The Cosmological Argument (Princeton Univ. Press, 1975).
Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction (Wadsworth, 1978; 2nd ed., 1993).
Bertrand Russell and Father F. C. Copleston
"A Debate on the Argument from Contingency,"
boadcast in 1948 on the Third Program of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Published in Humanitas (Manchester) and reprinted in Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1957).
Jan Salamucha
"The Proof 'ex motu' for the existence of God," New Scholasticism 31 (1958).
George Schlesinger
Religion and Scientific Method (Reidel, 1977).
Paul F. Schmidth
Religious Knowledge (The Free Press, 1961).
J. Shaffer
"Existence, Predication and the Ontological Argument," Mind 71 (1962): 307-25.
E. Sillem
Ways of Thinking about God (Longman Todd, 1962),
Ninian Smart
Reasons and Faiths (Routledge, 1958).
Huston Smith
"Do Drugs Have Religious Import?" The Journal of Philosophy 61 (1964): 517-530.
Elliott Sober
(and Branden Fitelson) "Plantinga's Probability Arguments Against Evolutionary Naturalism", Nov. 20, 1997.
Walter Stace
Mysticism and Philosophy (J. B. Lippincot, 1960).
Richard G. Swinburne
"Miracles," The Philosophical Quarterly 18 (1968): 320-28.
The Coherence of Theism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977). The Existence of God (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979).
Faith and Reason (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981).
Is There a God?
(Oxford University Press, 1997).
"The Justification of Theism"
11/20/97
A. E. Taylor
"Arguments for the Existence of God," (From Ch. 5, "Some Metaphysical Implications of Ethics and Religion", of A. E. Taylor's The Elements of Metaphysics (1903).)
Does God Exist? (Macmillan, 1945).
F. R. Tennant
Philosophical Theology (Cambridge University Press, 1928).
The Nature of Belief (The Centenary Press, 1943).
George F. Thomas
Philosophy and Religious Belief (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970).
Paul Tillich
Systematic Theology (Chicago University Press, 1951).
"Religious Symbols and our Knowledge of God," The Christian Scholar (September, 1955).
Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1955).
Dynamics of Faith (Harper and Row, 1957).
William Wainright
Mysticism: A Study of Its Nature, Cognitive Value and Moral Implications (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1981).
Henry Nelson Wieman
The Source of Human Good (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1946).
Man's Ultimate Commitment (Souther Illinois University Press, 1958).
Edward R. Wierenga
The Nature of God: An Inquiry into Divine Attributes (Cornell, 1989).
John Wisdom
"Gods", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1944-45).
L. Wittgenstein
Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief, ed. C. Barnett (Basil Blackwell, 1966).
Nicholas Wolterstorff
"God Everlasting," in God and the Good, ed. Orlebeke and Smedes (1975).
Reason within the Bounds of Religion (Eerdmans, 1976).
Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks. (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
"Responce to Pope John Paul II's encyclical letter,
Fides et Ratio," Christianity Online (July/Aug., 1999).
Stephen J. Wykstra
"Toward a Sensible Evidentialism: On the Notion of 'Needing Evidence'," in W. L. Rowe and W. J. Wainwright, eds., Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, 2nd edition; Harper Brace Jovanovich, 1989): 426-37.
Keith Yandell
Christianity and Philosophy (Eerdmans, 1984).
Linda Zagzebski
(ed.) Rational Faith: Catholic Responses to Reformed Epistemology (University of Notre Dame, 1993).