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.

Contents: What is the Philosophy of Religion?Three

Competing Paradigms in Contemporary Philosophy

of Religion. Deductivism (Neo-Thomism, Analytic

Philosophy, Analytic Atheism and the

Meaningfulness of Religious Language, Atheistic

Deductivism). Inductivism (Mitchell’s Inductivist

Proposal, Swinburne’s Bayesian Theism, Swinburne

on the Prior Probability of Theism, Swinburne’s

Positive Case for Theism, Swinburne’s Theodicy,

the Future of Inductivism. Post-Deductivism



(Deductivism and the Ethics of Belief, The Post-

Deductivists on Evil, Plantinga's Reformed



Epistemology, Plantinga and Wolterstorff: Christian

Philosophy). Recent Work on the Traditional

Arguments for God’s Existence.