Contents

Acknowledgements

How to use this book

Answering examination questions

Timeline

Part I Philosophy of religion

Ancient philosophical influences

 1 Plato

 2 Aristotle

 3 Soul, mind and body

The existence of God

 4 Arguments based on observation

 5 Arguments based on reason: the ontological argument

God and the world

 6 Religious experience

 7 The problem of evil

Part II Religious ethics

 8 What is ethics?

 9 Moral absolutism and moral relativism

Normative ethical theories: religious approaches

10 Natural moral law

11 Situation ethics

Normative ethical theories

12 Kantian ethics

13 Utilitarianism

Applied ethics

14 Euthanasia

15 Business ethics

Part III Developments in Christian thought

16 Introduction

Insight

17 Augustine’s teaching on human nature

18 Death and the afterlife

Foundations

19 Knowledge of God’s existence

20 The person of Jesus Christ

Living

21 Christian moral principles

22 Christian moral action

Glossary

Bibliography

Index