Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Philosophy of Religion: A Vision for the Field
Paul Draper
PART I: Future Progress in Religion
2 The Future of Religion: How Might Religion Make Progress?
J. L. Schellenberg
3 On Making Religious Progress
Robert McKim
Suggestions for further reading
PART II: Life After Death
4 Is Hope for Another Life Rational?
Mark Johnston
5 Jewels in the Ontological Trash Heap: Mark Johnston's Metaphysics of Persons
Dean Zimmerman
Suggestions for further reading
PART III: Divine Motivation and the Problem of Evil
6 Is an Absolutely Perfect Being Morally Perfect?
Mark C. Murphy
7 The Practical Life of God
Laura W. Ekstrom
Suggestions for further reading
PART IV: Alternative Concepts of God
8 Alternatives to Benevolent Theism: Ananthropocentric Theism and Axiarchism
Tim Mulgan
9 Between Orthodox Theism and Materialist Atheism
Fiona Ellis
10 Panpsychotheism
Paul Draper
Suggestions for further reading
Supplemental Guide to Further Controversies
Index
Biography
Paul Draper is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, USA. He is the co-editor of Renewing Philosophy of Religion: Exploratory Essays (2017, with J. L. Schellenberg) and the editor of God or Blind Nature? Philosophers Debate the Evidence (2008). His articles on the problem of evil, fine-tuning, atheism and agnosticism, and confirmation theory have appeared in such journals as American Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, Noûs, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Religious Studies, and The Monist.
