The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion

Peterson, Michael. 1982. Evil and the Christian God. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker. Peterson, Michael, William Hasker, Bruce Reiche ...

Martin, Michael. 1990. Atheism: A Philosophical Justification. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Quinn, Philip L., and Char ...

and MacIntyre 1955). Reformed epistemologists, on the other hand, such as Nicholas Wolterstorff, hold that one's personal perspe ...

In his dream argument, any feature of waking life we choose to distinguish it from dreaming is promptly imagined to be in a drea ...

Most contemporary philosophers do not think that Descartes, even on his own terms, managed to break out of the circle of his own ...

claiming that a sensation suggests a sound with such immediacy that we are unaware of having it.^5 Reformed epistemologists, too ...

consciousness, can I have contact with a reality independent of it? In a discussion between American analytic and nonanalytic ph ...

further questions about the reality of any substance we specify. Thales said, “All things are water,” but what about the reality ...

notions of “fact” and “truth” in Wittgensteinianism refer only to facts and truths about language? According to Wittgenstein's c ...

human consciousnesses, there is an additional consciousness called God? Swinburne (1979) and Plantinga (2000) call it “a person ...

old confusion: if one finds out what is meant by “the mind of God” and gives heed to it, that is what one is heeding, not the pr ...

able is shown in the ways we think and act and, notably, in what we do not question. Wittgenstein thinks that to seek a metaphys ...

Peter Winch (2001) has asked us to compare our puzzlement about God's place beyond the world with a comparable puzzlement one ma ...

but that presupposes, it will be said, a giver of the grace, about whom I have said nothing. But so far from omitting the notion ...

attitudes. Religious language is concerned with God, with thanking God, praying to God and praising God. It will not do at all t ...

to show why God has allowed so much suffering in the world, or in defenses that claim that God could have a good reason for allo ...

should not be, the heavens are silent. Yet, the story of the Passion, in laying bare human affliction, is suffused with compassi ...

that he does not show us the city with no main road. For Wittgenstein, there is a fundamental vocational difference between a ph ...

of language. Wittgenstein is not advancing anything like a genetic theory of meaning. For a discussion of this issue, see Malcol ...

Gaskin, J. L. 1988. Hume's Philosophy of Religion, 2nd edition. London: Macmillan. Hacker, P. M. S. 2001. “On Wittgenstein.” Phi ...