Philosophy of Religion Books

New and Published Books

1. The Puzzle of Existence

   Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

   Edited by Tyron Goldschmidt

   Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

   This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Fathoming the Depths of Reality

   By Roy Bhaskar

   Credited as the originator of the increasingly influential, international and multidisciplinary philosophy of critical realism, Roy Bhaskar's philosophy is presented here in perhaps the clearest format yet. In a series of dialogues with Savita Singh, the specific biographical origins, trajectory...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1901 and 1991, Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion offers a selection of outstanding scholarship covering many aspects of philosophical enquiry into belief and faith. Topics include the history of atheism, natural religion,...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. A History of Atheism in Britain

   From Hobbes to Russell

   By David Berman

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   Probably no doctrine has excited as much horror and abuse as atheism. This first history of British atheism, first published in 1987, tries to explain this reaction while exhibiting the development of atheism from Hobbes to Russell. Although avowed atheism appeared surprisingly late – 1782 in...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. A Philosophy of Christian Morals for Today

   By Robert Corkey

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   Philosophers have been sharply divided in attempts to reconcile the validity of the moral distinctions essential to social well-being with the apparent ethical neutrality of the factual world. The failure to find an agreed solution to this problem produced the popular theory of Logical Empiricism,...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
6. An Analytical Philosophy of Religion

   By Willem Frederik Zuurdeeg

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   This original study, published initially in 1959, introduces students of philosophy and of theology to a treatment of religion based upon the methods of modern philosophy – particularly logical empiricism and existentialism. Above and beyond the importance of its point of view, this book is...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Basic Modern Philosophy of Religion

   By Frederick Ferré

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   This book provides a reasoned, comprehensive understanding of what religion is as well as a clear and critical assessment of whether, in the light of modern developments in philosophy, contemporary thinking people can responsibly maintain religious belief in God. The book is divided into three...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. Christian Ethics

   By Robert Cecil Mortimer

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   A discussion of the general presuppositions and ideas which underlie the Christian ethical teaching, treating of such subjects as conscience, the concepts of sin and virtue, and the relation between morality and religion. The book also attempts to explain the traditional Christian attitudes towards...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
9. Christianity and Morals

   By Edward Alexander Westermarck

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   A thorough examination of many aspects of morality through the lens of Christianity, this book, originally published in 1939, is philosophical in its approach to assessing religion. It compares moral traditions of many world religions and describes their changes over time as well. Written...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
10. David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion In Focus

    Edited by Stanley Tweyman

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    Based on the original handwritten manuscript, this book provides a new, accurate edition of Hume’s important work, faithful to his original text, marginal notes, and changes. Stanley Tweyman’s comprehensive introduction gives an interpretation of the Dialogues as a whole, as well as close analysis...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge