PART I. PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF -- 1. Faith and Reason in Harmony / Thomas Aquinas -- 2. The Ethics of Belief / W.K. Clifford -- 3. The Presumption of Atheism / Antony Flew -- 4. Religious Belief as 'Properly Basic' / Alvin Plantinga -- 5. Evidence and Religious Belief / Norman Kretzmann -- 6. Grammar and Religious Belief / D.Z. Phillips -- 7. The Groundlessness of Religious Belief / Norman Malcolm -- PART II. THE PROBLEM OF GOD-TALK -- 8. How Believers Find God-Talk Puzzling / Augustine of Hippo -- 9. God-Talk is Evidently Nonsense / A.J. Ayer -- 10. God-Talk is Not Evidently Nonsense / Richard Swinburne -- 11. 'Death by a Thousand Qualifications' / Antony Flew -- 12. One Way of Understanding God-Talk / Thomas Aquinas -- PART III. ARGUMENTS FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE -- Cosmological Arguments -- 13. A Concise Cosmological Argument from the Eleventh Century / Anselm of Canterbury -- 14. A Thirteenth-Century Cosmological Argument / Thomas Aquinas -- 15. A Fourteenth-Century Cosmological Argument / John Duns Scotus -- 16. A Seventeenth-Century Cosmological Argument / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- 17. A Modern Cosmological Argument / Herbert McCabe -- 18. Objections to Cosmological Arguments / Paul Edwards -- 19. More Objections to Cosmological Arguments / J.L. Mackie -- 20. Why is a Cause Always Necessary? / David Hume -- 21. 'Whatever Has a Beginning of Existence Must Have a Cause' / G.E.M. Anscombe -- 22. Can There be an Endless Regress of Causes? / James A. Sadowsky -- Design Arguments -- 23. Is the World Ruled by Providence? / Thomas Aquinas -- 24. An Especially Famous Design Argument / William Paley -- 25. We Cannot Know that the World is Designed by God A David Hume -- 26. The Limits of Design Arguments / Immanuel Kant -- 27. God / Regularity / and David Hume / R.G. Swinburne -- 28. Can Design Arguments be Defended Today? / Robert Hambourger -- Ontological Arguments -- 29. Anselm Argues that God Cannot be Thought Not to Exist / Anselm of Canterbury -- 30. Gaunilo Argues that Anselm is Wrong / Gaunilo of Marmoutiers -- 31. Anselm Replies to Gaunilo / Anselm of Canterbury -- 32. Descartes Defends an Ontological Argument / Rene Descartes -- 33. Descartes Replies to Critics / Pierre Gassendi / Johannes Caterus / Rene Descartes -- 34. A Classic Repudiation of Ontological Arguments / Immanuel Kant -- 35. A Contemporary Defense of Ontological Arguments / Alvin Plantinga -- God and Human Experience -- 36. Why 'Knowing God by Experience' is a Notion Open to Question / C.B. Martin -- 37. Can We Know God by Experience? / Peter Donovan -- 38. Why Should There Not Be Experience of God? / William P. Alston -- PART IV. WHAT IS GOD? -- Omnipotent -- 39. A Modern Discussion of Divine Omnipotence / Thomas V. Morris -- 40. Why Think of God as Omnipotent? / Thomas Aquinas -- 41. Miracles and Laws of Nature / Richard Swinburne -- 42. Why We Should Disbelieve in Miracles / David Hume -- Knowing -- 43. Why Ascribe Knowledge to God? / Thomas Aquinas -- 44. Omniscience and Human Freedom: a Classic Discussion / Boethius -- 45. Problems for the Notion of Divine Omniscience / Nelson Pike -- Eternal -- 46. Why Call God 'Eternal'? / Thomas Aquinas -- 47. God is 'Everlasting' / not 'Eternal' / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- 48. A Modern Defence of Divine Eternity / Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann -- 49. A Different Modern Defense of Divine Eternity / Paul Helm -- Simple -- 50. A Classic Defense of Divine Simplicity / Thomas Aquinas -- 51. Problems with Divine Simplicity / Thomas V. Morris -- 52. A Modern Defense of Divine Simplicity / Brian Davies -- Part V. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL -- 53. Evil Shows that There is No God / J.L. Mackie -- 54. What is Evil? / Augustine of Hippo -- 55. Evil Does Not Show That There Is No God / Richard Swinburne -- 56. God / Evil / and Divine Responsibility / Herbert McCabe -- 57. God and Human Freedom / Thomas Aquinas -- Part VI. MORALITY AND RELIGION -- 58. God as a 'Postulate' of Sound Moral Thinking / Immanuel Kant -- 59. Why Morality Implies the Existence of God / H.P. Owen -- 60. Moral Thinking as Awareness of God / Illtyd Trethowan -- 61. Morality Does Not Imply the Existence of God / Kai Nielsen -- Part VII. PEOPLE AND LIFE AFTER DEATH -- 62. Philosophy and Life After Death: The Questions and the Options / Stephen T. Davis -- 63. Life After Death: An Ancient Greek View / Plato -- 64. Belief in Life After Death Comes from Emotion / not Reason / Bertrand Russell -- 65. What Must be True of Me if I Survive My Death? / Peter Geach.