Product Description: The question of whether religious experience can be trusted has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of religion in recent years. Kwan surveys this contemporary philosophical debate, provides in-depth analysis of the crucial issues, and offer arguments for an affirmative answer to the above question...read more

Product Description: Atheism as a belief does not have to present intellectual credentials within academia. Yet to hold beliefs means giving reasons for doing so, ones which may be found wanting. Instead, atheism is the automatic default setting within the academic world...read more

Product Description: Many people believe in angels and evil spirits, and popular culture abounds in talk about encounters with such entities. Yet the question of the existence of such spirits is ignored in the academy. Even the Christian Church, which one might expect to show keen interest in transcendent realities, does not appear to be paying much attention...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Down the centuries there have been various attempts to prove the existence of God, and to demonstrate God's action in the world. Russell Stannard, the distinguished physicist and author, looks at what modern science can bring to the discussion. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "The heart has its reasons the mind will never know" ...Blaise Pascal In this oft-quoted remark, Pascal was not referring to feelings or hunches, but to our intuitions of self-evidency such as those we have for "the first principles of number, time, space and motion...read more

Product Description: Jerome I. Gellman observes that the mystic experience of God's presence, a sense of having direct contact with the divine, often compels belief in God's existence. On the basis of widely accepted principles connecting appearance with reality, Gellman contends, the claims people make of having experienced God show that belief in God is strongly rational, meaning that such claims are sufficient in number and variety to support a line of reasoning making it rational to believe that God exists and irrational to deny God's existence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This sensitive work explores the perplexing issue of our knowledge of God. Must we line up with those who believe that any knowledge of God is impossible or should we agree with those who feel that knowledge of God is strongly established...read more