COURSE INFORMATION FOR PHL 1003
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Course Description
A rational examination of the nature and content of religious belief through an examination of such issues as the relation of reason to faith, the existence and nature of God, religious experience, and the occurrence of evil.
3 credit hours
Recommended Readings: The Nature of God
| Pseudo-Dionysius | The Divine Names | 12th cent. |
| Thomas Aquinas | Summa Theologica (Book I) | 1256-74 |
| Rudolf Otto | The Idea of the Holy | 1923 |
| Charles Hartshorne | The Divine Relativity | 1948 |
| Paul Tillich | Systematic Theology (volume 1) | 1951 |
| Nelson Pike | God and Timelessness | 1970 |
| John B. Cobb & David Ray Griffin | Process Theology | 1976 |
| Richard Swinburne | The Coherence of Theism | 1977 |
| Linwood Urban & Douglas N. Walton, editors | The Power of God | 1978 |
| Anthony Kenny | The God of the Philosophers | 1979 |
| Stephen T. Davis | Logic and the Nature of God | 1983 |
| John F. Haught | What is God? | 1986 |
| Thomas V. Morris, editor | Divine and Human Action | 1988 |
| Karen Armstrong | A History of God | 1993 |
| Clark H. Pinnock et al | The Openness of God | 1994 |
| Richard Swinburne | The Christian God | 1994 |
| Nicholas P. Wolterstorff | Divine Discourse | 1995 |
| Gregory A. Boyd | God of the Possible | 2000 |
| Clark H. Pinnock | Most Moved Mover | 2001 |
| Michael Martin & Riki Monnier, editors | The Impossibility of God | 2003 |
Recommended Readings: Faith and the Search for Evidence
| Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali | The Incoherence of the Philosophers | c. 1100 |
| Abdul Walid ibn Rushd (Averroes) | On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy | 12th cent. |
| Blaise Pascal | Pensees (Thoughts) | 1670 |
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte | The Vocation of Man | 1800 |
| Søren Kierkegaard | Fear and Trembling | 1843 |
| Søren Kierkegaard | The Sickness Unto Death | 1849 |
| Søren Kierkegaard | Attack Upon "Christendom" | 1854-5 |
| Rudolf Otto | The Idea of the Holy | 1923 |
| Sigmund Freud | The Future of an Illusion | 1927 |
| John Baillie | Our Knowledge of God | 1939 |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel | God in Search of Man | 1955 |
| Paul Tillich | Dynamics of Faith | 1957 |
| John Hick | Faith and Knowledge | 1966 |
| Richard Swinburne | Faith and Reason | 1981 |
| Keith M. Parsons | God and the Burden of Proof | 1989 |
| Terence Penelhum, editor | Faith | 1989 |
| Michael C. Banner | The Justification of Science and the Rationality of Religious Belief | 1990 |
| R. Douglas Geivett & Brendan Sweetman, editors | Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology | 1992 |
| Elizabeth S. Radcliffe & Carol J. White, editors | Faith in Theory and Practice | 1993 |
| J. L. Schellenberg | Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason | 1993 |
| Nancey C. Murphy | Reasoning and Rhetoric in Religion | 1994 |
| William J. Wainwright | Reason and the Heart | 1995 |
| John Paul II | Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason) | 1998 |
| Alvin Plantinga | Warranted Christian Belief | 1999 |
| Paul K. Moser | Why Isn't God More Obvious? | 2000 |
| Michael Shermer | How We Believe | 2000 |
| Daniel Howard-Snyder & Paul K. Moser, editors | Divine Hiddenness | 2002 |
| J. L. Schellenberg | The Wisdom to Doubt | 2007 |
| Paul K. Moser | The Elusive God | 2008 |
Recommended Readings: Arguments for and Against the Existence of God
| Anselm | Monologium | 1076 |
| Anselm | Proslogium | 1077-8 |
| Thomas Aquinas | Summa Theologica (Book I) | 1265-74 |
| Paul Henri Thierry, Baron d'Holbach | Good Sense | 1772 |
| Jeremy Bentham | Analysis of the Influence of Natural Religion on the Temporal Happiness of Mankind | 1822 |
| Bertrand Russell | Why I Am Not a Christian | 1957 |
| John Hick, editor | The Existence of God | 1964 |
| William L. Rowe | The Cosmological Argument | 1975 |
| Richard Swinburne | The Existence of God | 1977, 2004 |
| Clark H. Pinnock | Reason Enough | 1980 |
| J. L. Mackie | The Miracle of Theism | 1982 |
| Richard Dawkins | The Blind Watchmaker | 1986 |
| Michael Martin | Atheism | 1990 |
| J. P. Moreland & Kai Nielsen | Does God Exist? | 1990 |
| William Lane Craig & Quentin Smith | Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology | 1993 |
| Merold Westphal | Suspicion and Faith | 1993 |
| C. Stephen Evans | Why Believe? | 1996 |
| Keith Ward | God, Chance and Necessity | 1996 |
| Stephen T. Davis | God, Reason and Theistic Proofs | 1997 |
| Paul Copan & Paul K. Moser, editors | The Rationality of Theism | 2003 |
| Neil A. Manson, editor | God and Design | 2003 |
| J. P. Moreland & William Lane Craig | Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview | 2003 |
| Stan W. Wallace, editor | Does God Exist? | 2003 |
| Richard Dawkins | The God Delusion | 2006 |
| Michael Martin &Riki Monnier, editors | The Improbability of God | 2006 |
| Christopher Hitchens, editor | The Portable Atheist | 2007 |
Recommended Readings: Understanding Miracles and Religious Experience
| David Hume | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | 1748 |
| William James | The Varieties of Religious Experience | 1905 |
| John Baillie | The Sense of the Presence of God | 1962 |
| Richard Swinburne | The Concept of Miracle | 1970 |
| Wayne Proudfoot | Religious Experience | 1985 |
| Caroline Franks-Davis | The Evidential Force of Religious Experience | 1989 |
| Richard Swinburne, editor | Miracles | 1989 |
| William P. Alston | Perceiving God | 1991 |
| Keith Yandell | The Epistemology of Religious Experience | 1993 |
| Nicholas P. Wolterstorff | Divine Discourse | 1995 |
| R. Douglas Geivett & Gary Habermas, editors | In Defense of Miracles | 1997 |
| Roy A. Clouser | Knowing with the Heart | 1999 |
| Richard Swinburne | The Resurrection of God Incarnate | 2003 |
Recommended Readings: The Challenges of Evil
| John Hick | Evil and the God of Love | 1966, 1978 |
| Edward H. Madden & Peter H. Hare | Evil and the Concept of God | 1968 |
| Alvin Plantinga | God, Freedom and Evil | 1974 |
| Diogenes Allen | Traces of God in a Frequently Hostile World | 1981 |
| Stephen T. Davis, editor | Encountering Evil | 1981 |
| Marilyn McCord Adams & Robert M. Adams, editors | The Problem of Evil | 1990 |
| Michael L. Peterson, editor | The Problem of Evil | 1992 |
| Timothy Anders | The Evolution of Evil | 1994 |
| Daniel Howard-Snyder, editor | The Evidential Argument from Evil | 1996 |
| Gregory A. Boyd | God at War | 1997 |
| Theodore M. Drange | Nonbelief and Evil | 1998 |
| Michael L. Peterson | God and Evil | 1998 |
| Richard Swinburne | Providence and the Problem of Evil | 1998 |
| Marilyn McCord Adams | Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God | 1999 |
| Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, editor | The Many Faces of Evil | 2001 |
| Claudia Card | The Atrocity Paradigm | 2002 |
| Gregory A. Boyd | Is God to Blame? | 2003 |
Recommended Readings: The Challenges of Religious Diversity
| Rudolf Bultmann | Jesus Christ and Mythology | 1958 |
| Wilfred Cantwell Smith | Patterns of Faith Around the World | 1962 |
| Paul Tillich | Christianity and the Encounter of World Religions | 1963 |
| Vatican II Council | Nostra Aetate | 1965 |
| John Hick, editor | Truth and Dialogue in World Religions | 1974 |
| John Hick | God Has Many Names | 1980 |
| John Hick & Brian Hebblethwaite, editors | Christianity and Other Religions | 1980 |
| John Hick | Problems of Religious Pluralism | 1985 |
| Gavin D'Costa | Theology and Religious Pluralism | 1986 |
| John Hick & Paul F. Knitter, editors | The Myth of Christian Uniqueness | 1987 |
| Diogenes Allen | Christian Belief in a Postmodern World | 1989 |
| John Hick | An Interpretation of Religion | 1989 |
| Gavin D'Costa, editor | Christian Uniqueness Reconsidered | 1990 |
| Dalai Lama XIV et al | The Good Heart | 1995 |
| Thich Nhat Hanh | Living Buddha, Living Christ | 1995 |
| Thomas D. Senor, editor | The Rationality of Belief and the Plurality of Faith | 1995 |
| Philip L. Quinn & Kevin Meeker, editors | The Philosophical Challenge of Religious Diversity | 2000 |
Recommended Readings: Religion and Science
| Richard Dawkins | The Blind Watchmaker | 1986 |
| John Polkinghorne | One World | 1986 |
| John Polkinghorne | Science and Creation | 1989 |
| Ian Barbour | Religion in an Age of Science | 1990 |
| Daniel C. Dennett | Darwin's Dangerous Idea | 1995 |
| Philip Clayton | God and Contemporary Science | 1997 |
| John Polkinghorne | Belief in God in an Age of Science | 1998 |
| Stephen Jay Gould | Rocks of Ages | 1999 |
| Kenneth R. Miller | Finding Darwin's God | 1999 |
| John F. Haught | God after Darwin | 2000 |
| John Polkinghorne | Faith, Science and Understanding | 2000 |
| Michael Ruse | Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? | 2001 |
| Paul Kurtz, editor | Science and Religion | 2003 |
| John F. Haught | Christianity and Science | 2007 |
last updated 12/16/09