Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction

Introduction; Timeline; 1. New Ways of Thinking; 2. Philosophy - The Basics; 3. Problems of Knowledge and Knowing God; 4. Plato and the Doctrine of the Forms; 5. Aristotle; 6. Concepts of God; 7. The Divine Attributes; 8. God's Knowledge and God's Goodness; 9. God as Creator; 10. Arguments for the Existence of God 1: Ontological Arguments; 11. Arguments for the Existence of God 2: St Thomas Aquinas and the Cosmological Argument; 12. Arguments for the Existence of God 3: The Cosmological Argument II - God as Explanation; 13. Arguments for the Existence of God 4: The Teleological (Design) Argument; 14. Arguments for the Existence of God 5: The Moral Argument; 15. Arguments Against the Existence of God 1: The Problem of Evil I - St Augustine; 16. Arguments Against the Existence of God 2: The Problem of Evil II - Irenaean Theodicy and Swinburne; 17. Arguments Against the Existence of God 3: Other Theodicies; 18. Arguments Against the Existence of God 4: The Challenge of Modern Science; 29. Arguments Against the Existence of God 5: Darwin's Black Box and Irreducible Complexity; 20. Arguments Against the Existence of God 6: The Problem of the Multiplicity of Faiths; 21. Religious Language 1 - Verification and Meaning; 22. Religious Language 2 - The Falsification Debate; 23. Religious Language 3 - Via Negativa, Analogy, Symbol and Myth; 24. Religious Language 4 - Language Games; 25. Problems of Knowledge 1 - Realism, Anti-Realism and Non-Realism; 26. Problems of Knowledge 2 - Reformed Epistemology and Foundationalism; 27. Religious Experience; 28. Revelation and Scripture; 29. Miracles; 30. Morality and Religion; 31. Body and Soul; 32. Life After Death; Appendix: Writing a Philosophy Essays; Suggestions for Further Reading.

Michael B. Wilkinson lectures at Sussex Downs college and has over 30 years experience of teaching philosophical topics at university, seminary and college level. He is a senior examiner for a major awarding body and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK. Hugh N. Campbell is a principal examiner for a major awarding body and has been teaching philosophy of religion for 20 years.