Philosophy of Religion

Paul Copan is Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida. He has authored and edited a variety of books including Loving Wisdom: Christian Philosophy of Religion (2007), The Rationality of Theism (with Paul Moser, 2003), and Creation out of Nothing (with William Lane Craig, 2004).Chad Meister is Director of Philosophy at Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana. His various books include Introducing Philosophy of Religion (forthcoming 2008), The Philosophy of Religion Reader (2007) and the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion (with Paul Copan, 2007).

“This new range of specially commissioned articles by leading philosophers of religion brings us right up to date on traditional and new topics in the field. Students and teachers alike will find most profitable this comprehensive guide to both classic and current debate and literature.”Harriet Harris, University of Oxford"This has considerable potential as a course textbook … Handy route map for middle- to upper-level undergraduates." Times Higher Education Supplement “An invigorating, wide-ranging, and cutting edge volume. Its clear and carefully structured essays shed considerable light on issues old and new. The book will excite both neophytes and experts.”David Shatz, Yeshiva University “This is a remarkably wide-ranging volume of essays by a distinguished team of experts in the philosophy of religion. It will be indispensable for teachers and students of the subject and of great interest to specialists in the field.”E. J. Lowe, Durham University

• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction 1Part I: Religions Experience and Knowledge 71 The Epistemology of Religious Experience 9William E. Mann2 Religion and Science 23John Polkinghorne3 Reformed Epistemology 37René van Woudenberg4 Religious Pluralism 51Joseph Runzo5 Religious Exclusivism 67Harold NetlandPart II: The Existence of God 816 The Cosmological Argument 83William Lane Craig7 The Teleological Argument 98Robin Collins8 The Ontological Argument 112Graham Oppy9 The Moral Argument 127Paul Copan10 The Argument from Evil 142Paul Draper11 A Naturalistic Account of the Universe 156Quentin SmithPart III: The Nature and Attributes of God 17112 The Coherence of Theism 173Charles Taliaferro13 The Impossibility of God? 188Robin Le Poidevinl4 God, Time, and Freedom 202Katherin A. Rogers15 Divine Hiddenness, Death, and Meaning 215Paul K. MoserPart IV: Emerging Themes 22916 Continental Philosophy of Religion 231Bruce Ellis Benson17 Eastern Philosophy of Religion 245Gavin Hood18 Feminist Philosophy of Religion 261Pamela Sue AndersonAppendix: Leading Philosophers of Religion 274Index 277