Philosophy of Religion

What Is Philosophy?

What Is Religion?

What Is Philosophy of Religion?

How Is the Word "God" Generally Used?

How Do Various Theists Use the Word "God"?

What Is Knowledge?

What Kinds of Evidence Count?

What Constitutes Good Evidence?

Why Argue for the Existence of God?

How Ontological Argument Works

Why Ontological Argument Is Said to Fail

How Cosmological Argument Works

Why Cosmological Argument Is Said to Fail

How Teleological Argument Works

How Teleological Argument Works (Continued)

Why Teleological Argument Is Said to Fail

Divine Encounters Make Argument Unnecessary

Divine Encounters Require Interpretation

Why Is Evil a Problem?

Taking Evil Seriously

Non-Justificatory Theodicies

Justifying Evil

Justifying Natural Evil

Justifying Human Evil

Evidence Is Irrelevant to Faith

Groundless Faith Is Irrelevant to Life

God Is Beyond Human Grasp, but That's O.K.

Transcendental Talk Is "Sound and Fury"

Discourse in an Intentionalist Paradigm

Evaluating Paradigms

Choosing and Changing Paradigms

Language Games and Theistic Discourse

Fabulation — Theism as Story

Theistic Stories, Morality, and Culture

Stories, Moral Progress, and Culture Reform

Conclusions and Signposts