Contemporary Philosophy of Religion

Among the questions that have exercised philosophers of the last sixty years that of the existence of God has been one of the most hotly contested. That question is the subject of this book. Its chapters cover: What is the Philosophy of Religion? Three Competing Paradigms in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion; Deductivism (Neo-Thomism Analytic Philosophy Analytic Atheism etc); Inductivism (Mitchell's Inductivist Proposal Swinburne's various arguments the Future of Inductivism); Post-Deductivism (the Ethics of Belief The Post-Deductivists on Evil Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology Plantinga and Wolterstorff: Christian Philosophy); and Recent Work on the Traditional Arguments for God's Existence. An excellent introduction to the subject area. It offers clear concise coverage of recent developments and is written in an accessible way. Newcomers to the philosophy of religion as well as those with a background in the field would profit from consulting it. -- Sarah Harrison