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Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
INTRODUCTION: PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Mystical Experience
Mysticism,
Intuitive Ways of Knowing
Personal Experience of God
Critique of Mysticism
The Care of Religion
Varieties of Religious Understanding
The Pluralistic Hypothesis
RETROSPECTIVE: RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
CHAPTER TWO RELIGION AND LIFE
INTRODUCTION: RELIGION AND LIFE
Life's Goal Is to Obey God's Will
Moral Obligation
Life's Goal Is to Achieve Greatness
The Joyful Wisdom
Life Is Not Meaningful Without God
A Confession
Life Is Meaningful Without God
Ethics Without Religion
RETROSPECTIVE: RELIGION AND LIFE
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
CHAPTER THREE RELIGION AND HUMAN DESTINY
INTRODUCTION: RELIGION AND DEATH
The Immortality of the Soul
Phaedo
The Finality of Death
Letter to Menoeceus
The Hope for Resurrection
The Death of Death
Death in Buddhism
The Doctrine of No-Soul: Anatta
RETROSPECTIVE: RELIGION AND DEATH
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
CHAPTER FOUR ARGUMENTS FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE
INTRODUCTION : THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
The Ontological Argument
The Most Perfect Being
The Cosmological Arguments
The Kalām Cosmlogical Argument
The Design Argument
Natural Theology
The Moral Argument
God as a Postulate of Practical Reason
RETROSPECTIVE: THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
CHAPTER FIVE THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
INTRODUCTION: GOD AND EVIL
Evil and the Power of God
Divine Omnipotence
Theodicy in Process Thought
God in Process
Karma and Evil
Karma in Hindu Thought
The "Vale of Soul-Making" Theodicy
Evil and the God of Love
RETROSPECTIVE: GOD AND EVIL
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
CHAPTER SIX FAITH AND REASON
INTRODUCTION: OPINION, BELIEF, AND KNOWLEDGE
Belief and Falsification
The Falsification Debate
Will and Belief
The Will to Believe
No Rational Basis for Faith
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
The Leap of Faith
Objective and Subjective Reflection
RETROSPECTIVE: FAITH AND REASON
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
CHAPTER SEVEN RELIGION AND CURRENT ISSUES
INTRODUCTION: RELIGION AND SOCIETY
Religion and Government
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Religion and Women
The Female Nature of God
Religion and World Origins
Creative Evolution
Religion and Human Origins
Life's Dominion
RETROSPECTIVE: RELIGION AND CURRENT ISSUES
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARIES
GLOSSARY
INDEX
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