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Table of Contents:
Foundations of religion
1 Plato
2 Plato’s key ideas (1)
3 Plato’s key ideas (2)
4 Aristotle
5 Aristotle and the principle of cause
6 The God of classical theism
7 Omnipotence and omniscience
8 God’s goodness
9 God as creator (1)
10 God as creator (2)
11 God’s revelation
Proof and faith
12 Principles of philosophical proof
13 Types of proof
14 Faith
The Cosmological Argument
15 The Cosmological Argument
16 Aquinas’ First Way
17 Aquinas’ Second Way
18 Aquinas’ Third Way
19 Developing the Cosmological Argument
20 David Hume’s criticisms
21 Modern criticisms of the Cosmological Argument
The Design Argument
22 The Design Argument (1)
23 The Design Argument (2)
24 William Paley’s analogy
25 Modern Design Arguments
26 Criticisms of the Design Argument
The Ontological Argument
27 The Ontological Argument
28 Anselm’s form of the Ontological Argument (1)
29 Anselm’s form of the Ontological Argument (2)
30 Responding to Gaunilo’s criticisms
31 Descartes’ form of the argument
32 Existence as a predicate
33 Modern applications of the argument
Religious experience
34 The argument from religious experience (1)
35 The argument from religious experience (2)
36 The argument from religious experience (3)
37 The nature of religious experience (1)
38 The nature of religious experience (2)
39 William James: four characteristics of religious experience
40 Mysticism
Miracles
41 Miracles
42 Miracles: Thomas Aquinas
43 Miracles: philosophical issues
44 Miracles: David Hume
45 Miracles: testimony
46 Miracles in the Bible
The problem of evil
47 The nature of evil
48 The problem of evil
49 The Augustinian theodicy (1)
50 The Augustinian theodicy (2)
51 The Irenaean theodicy
52 Problems with the Irenaean theodicy
53 Evil, God and humanity
54 Process theology
55 Evil and human freedom
Science and religion
56 The Bible and creationism
57 Religious interpretations of the origin of the world (1)
58 Religious interpretations of the origin of the world (2)
59 Scientific interpretations of the origin of the world
60 The origin of the world: key ideas
Atheism
61 Atheism
62 Critiques of atheism
63 Sociological critiques
64 Psychological critiques
65 Dawkins and anti-theism
66 Moral critiques
67 Other challenges to theism
Life after death
68 Life after death
69 The immortality of the soul (1)
70 The immortality of the soul (2)
71 The resurrection of the body
72 The replica theory
73 The ghost in the machine
74 Reincarnation
75 Near-death experiences
76 Philosophical problems posed by life after death
Religious language
77 Religious language (1)
78 Religious language (2)
79 Analogy
80 The verification principle
81 Criticisms of the verification principle
82 The falsification principle
83 Responses to the falsification principle
84 The parable of the partisan and the stranger
85 Language games
86 Symbol (1)
87 Symbol (2)
88 Myth (1)
89 Myth (2)
Evaluation questions
90 God and morality
91 The Cosmological Argument
92 The Design Argument
93 The Ontological Argument
94 The argument from religious experience
95 Moral and theological problems of miracles
96 The problem of evil
97 Reconciling scientific and religious interpretations of the origin of the world
98 Atheism
99 Life after death
100 Religious language

About the Author(s):
Sarah K. Tyler is a Principal Examiner for Religious Studies and Head of Religious Studies at Mander Portman Woodward in London.