Ten Essential Texts in the Philosophy of Religion: Classics and Contemporary Issues

Offering a new approach to teaching the philosophy of religion, this anthology is organized around ten of the most widely read texts in the field. Presented in their entirety, these classics serve as a framework for a variety of accessible contemporary essays that are also included. The book's unique structure gives students the opportunity to study in depth complete historical works while also conveying a sense of how today's philosophers have explored related issues. Editor Steven M. Cahn has annotated each text to clarify all unfamiliar references. He has also provided introductions that contain biographical profiles of the authors and philosophical commentaries on their writings.

Ten Essential Texts in the Philosophy of Religion: Classics and Contemporary Issues may be supplemented by Questions about God: Today's Philosophers Ponder the Divine, a provocative collection of recent articles on the nature of God, edited by Steven M. Cahn and David Shatz (OUP, 2002).

Ten Essential Texts in the Philosophy of Religion includes the following unabridged classic works:

Euthyphro, Plato

The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius

Proslogion, Anselm; On Behalf of the Fool, Gaunilo: and Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm

Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas

Of Miracles, David Hume

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume

Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Søren Kierkegaard

The Will to Believe, William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James

Theology and Falsification, Antony Flew, R.M. Hare, and Basil Mitchell