1. Introduction: The Beginning of the End
2. Theodicy: The Solution to the Problem of Evil, or Part of the
Problem?
What is a Theodicy?
Sketch of a Theodicy
The Anti-Theodical Critique
Suffering the Consequences
The Teleology of Suffering
The Challenge of Ivan Karamazov
Theoretical and Practical Problems of Evil
3. Meta-Philosophy of Religion: The Analytic-Continental Divide in
Philosophy of Religion
The Great Divide Preliminary Matters
A Question of Style
Entering Deeper into Metaphilosophy: Analytical and Continental
Approaches
Analytic Philosophy
Continental Philosophy
4. Continental Philosophy of Religion and Objections from the
Analytic Camp
Continental Philosophy of Religion
The God of the Philosophers and the God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob
Objections from the Analytic Camp
Poor Form: the Language and Style of Continental Philosophy Lack of
content: the underlying commitments of Continental Philosophy
Perspectivism
Non-realism
5. Kazantzakis' Poor Man of God: Philosophy without Philosophy
6. After the End of Philosophy of Religion
An expert examination of the analytic-continental divide in the writing and study of philosophy of religion.
Nick Trakakis is Research Fellow in Philosophy at Australian Catholic University, Victoria, Australia. He is co-founder of the Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association and editor, with Graham Oppy, of A History of Western Philosophy of Religion, volumes 1-5, published by Oxford University Press USA/Acumen in 2009.
‘This is an insightful, sensitive and judicious book, full of
careful distinctions, and it avoid tirades or over the top
criticisms of either side. The book will be of interest to students
and faculty working in the areas of analytic and continental
philosophy of religion. There is a niche for this because there is
very little sensible material out there, discussions of real worth,
on the analytic/continental divide.' -- John D. Caputo, The Thomas
J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities and Professor of
Philosophy, Syracuse University, NY, USA
*John D. Caputo*
'Analytic philosophers tend to think of Continental philosophy as
loose and literary, while Continental philosophers usually see
analytic philosophy as narrow, pseudo-scientific, and abstracted
from history. The best place for a conversation between them to
begin is the philosophy of religion, and in his bold new work Nick
Trakkakis does just that. The result: a meta-philosophy of
religion, one that will perhaps retire some old debates and
rejuvenate the field by redirecting many of its concerns about
substance and style.' -- Kevin J. Hart, University of Virginia,
USA
*Kevin J. Hart*
"Trakakis offers an important and bracing account of Philosophy of
Religion and its End, and calls for us to think and imagine it
anew. [...] This new broadened wisdom is supple enough to conceive
religion and God in different and powerful ways, attentive to the
incredible suffering of the world and the stakes of what it would
mean to instantiate love in it. Philosophers of religion of all
sorts should be grateful to Trakakis for his work of love."-- The
International Journal of Philosophy of Religion
"The bulk of the book is one of the first comprehensive studies
within the meta-philosophy of religion and it evidences all of the
qualities of careful and perspicuous scholarship that have
characterized Trakakis's earlier work." -- Religious Studies
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