Table of Contents

Introduction
Timeline

Part 1: Preliminaries
1. New Ways of Thinking
2. Philosophy - The Basics
3. Problems of Knowledge and Knowing God

Part 2: The Origins of the Debates
4. Plato and the Doctrine of the Forms
5. Aristotle

Part 3: The Attributes of God
6. Concepts of God
7. The Divine Attributes
8. God's Knowledge and God's Goodness
9. God as Creator

Part 4: Arguments for the Existence of God
10. Ontological Arguments
11. St Thomas Aquinas and the Cosmological Argument
12. The Cosmological Argument II - God as Explanation
13. The Teleological (Design) Argument
14. The Moral Argument

Part 5: Arguments Against the Existence of God
15. The Problem of Evil I - St Augustine
16. The Problem of Evil II - Irenaean Theodicy and Swinburne
17. Other Theodicies
18. The Challenge of Modern Science
29. Darwin's Black Box and Irreducible Complexity
20. The Problem of the Multiplicity of Faiths

Part 6: Religious Language
21. Verification and Meaning
22. The Falsification Debate
23. Via Negativa, Analogy, Symbol and Myth
24. Language Games

Part 7: Problems of Knowledge
25. Realism, Anti-Realism and Non-Realism
26. Reformed Epistemology and Foundationalism

Part 8: Religious Experience
27. Religious Experience
28. Revelation and Scripture
29. Miracles
30. Morality and Religion

Part 9: Body, Soul and the Afterlife
31. Body and Soul
32. Life After Death

Afterword
Appendix: Writing a Philosophy Essays
Suggestions for Further Reading

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A comprehensive textbook for students coming to philosophy of religion for the first time.

About the Author

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.

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*Philosophical Investigations*

This volume is a comprehensive introduction to beginning students of philosophy of religion.
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