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Tables of Contents for Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Religion
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Notes on Contributors
viii
Preface
xi
PART I ATTACKS ON RELIGIOUS BELIEF
1
94
Is Evil Evidence against Belief in God?
3
27
Evil Is Evidence against Theistic Belief
3
10
William L. Rowe
Make Atheism More Reasonable than Theism
13
12
Daniel Howard-Snyder
Michael Bergmann
Reply to Howard-Snyder and Michael Bergmann
25
2
Reply to Rowe
27
3
Does Divine Hiddenness Justify Atheism?
30
29
Divine Hiddenness Justifies Atheism
30
12
J. L. Schellenberg
Divine Hiddenness Does Not Justify Atheism
42
12
Paul K. Moser
Reply to Moser
54
2
Reply to Schellenberg
56
3
Does Science Discredit Religion?
59
36
Science Discredits Religion
59
13
John Worrall
The Demise of Religion: Greatly Exaggerated Reports from the Science/Religion ``Wars''
72
15
Del Ratzsch
Reply to Ratzsch
87
3
Reply to Worrall
90
5
PART II ARGUMENTS FOR RELIGIOUS BELIEF
95
94
Is God's Existence the Best Explanation of the Universe?
97
38
Explanation and the Cosmological Argument
97
17
Bruce R. Reichenbach
Why Traditional Cosmological Arguments Don't Work, and a Sketch of a New One that Does
114
16
Richard M. Gale
Reply to Gale
130
2
Reply to Reichenbach
132
3
Does Religious Experience Justify Religious Belief?
135
29
Religious Experience Justifies Religious Belief
135
10
William P. Alston
Do Mystics See God?
145
13
Evan Fales
Reply to Fales
158
3
Reply to Alston
161
3
Is It Rational for Christians to Believe in the Resurrection?
164
25
It Is Rational to Believe in the Resurrection
164
10
Stephen T. Davis
It Is Not Rational to Believe in the Resurrection
174
10
Michael Martin
Reply to Martin
184
2
Reply to Davis
186
3
PART III ISSUES WITHIN RELIGION
189
155
Can Only One Religion Be True?
191
27
How to Sink in Cognitive Quicksand: Nuancing Religious Pluralism
191
10
Keith E. Yandell
It Is Not Reasonable to Believe that Only One Religion Is True
201
10
Peter Byrne
Reply to Byrne
211
4
Reply to Yandell
215
3
Does God Take Risks in Governing the World?
218
24
God Takes Risks
218
10
William Hasker
God Does Not Take Risks
228
10
Paul Helm
Reply to Helm
238
2
Reply to Hasker
240
2
Does God Respond to Petitionary Prayer?
242
26
God Responds to Prayer
242
13
Michael J. Murray
God Does Not Necessarily Respond to Prayer
255
9
David Basinger
Reply to Basinger
264
2
Reply to Murray
266
2
Is Eternal Damnation Compatible with the Christian Concept of God?
268
22
Eternal Hell and the Christian Concept of God
268
10
Jerry Walls
No Hell
278
9
Thomas Talbott
Reply to Talbott
287
1
Reply to Walls
288
2
Is Morality Based on God's Commands?
290
25
Divine Commands Are the Foundation of Morality
290
9
Janine Marie Idziak
Ethics Is Based on Natural Law
299
11
Craig A. Boyd
Raymond J. VanArragon
Reply to Boyd and VanArragon
310
3
Reply to Idziak
313
2
Should a Christian Be a Mind--Body Dualist?
315
29
Christians Should Affirm Mind--Body Dualism
315
12
Dean W. Zimmerman
Christians Should Reject Mind--Body Dualism
327
11
Lynne Rudder Baker
Reply to Baker
338
3
Reply to Zimmerman
341
3
Index
344