End 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 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 f. 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

• 1. Introduction: The Begirming 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.