General Editor: William Lane Craig
Section Editors: Kevin Meeker, J. P. Moreland, Michael Murray, Timothy O'Connor
 

PART I RELIGIOUS EPISTEMOLOGY 
    Kevin Meeker 
    Religious Epistemology: Introduction 7 

    1.1     Ian Hacking 
        ‘The Logic of Pascal’s Wager’ 17 
    1.2     George Schlesinger 
        ‘A Central Theistic Argument’ 25 
    1.3     Alvin Plantinga 
        ‘Is Belief in God Rationally Acceptable?’ 40 
    1.4     Philip L. Quinn 
        ‘Defeating Theistic Beliefs’ 57 
    Suggested Reading 66 

PART II NATURAL THEOLOGY 
    William Lane Craig 
        Natural Theology: Introduction 69 

    Cosmological Argument 
    2.1     Stephen T. Davis 
        ‘The Cosmological Argument and the Epistemic Status of Belief in God’ 82 
    2.2     William Lane Craig 
        The Kalam Cosmological Argument 92 
    Teleological Argument
    2.3     John Leslie 
        ‘The Prerequisites of Life in our Universe’ 114 
    2.4    Robin Collins 
        ‘Design and the Many-Worlds Hypothesis’ 130 
    Axiological Argument 
    2.5    Stuart C. Hackett 
       ‘The Value Dimension of the Cosmos: A Moral Argument’ 149 
    Noölogical Argument 
    2.6    J. P. Moreland 
        ‘Searle’s Biological Naturalism and the Argument from Consciousness’ 155 
    Ontological Argument 
    2.7    Alvin Plantinga 
        ‘The Ontological Argument’ 180 
    2.8     Quentin Smith 
        ‘The Conceptualist Argument for God’s Existence’ 189 
    Suggested Reading 198 

PART III THE COHERENCE OF THEISM 
    William Lane Craig 
        The Coherence of Theism: Introduction 203 

    Necessity 
    3.1    Robert Prevost 
        ‘Divine Necessity’ 216 
    Eternity 
    3.2    Alan Padgett 
        ‘God and Timelessness’ 230 
    Omniscience 
    3.3    Alvin Plantinga 
        ‘On Ockham’s Way Out’ 246 
    3.4    Alfred J. Freddoso 
        ‘On Divine Middle Knowledge’ 257 
    Omnipotence 
    3.5    Thomas P. Flint and Alfred J. Freddoso 
        ‘Maximal Power’ 265 
    Goodness 
    3.6    William P. Alston 
        ‘What Euthyphro Should Have Said’ 283 
    Suggested Reading 299 

PART IV THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
     Timothy O’Connor 
        The Problem of Evil: Introduction 303 

    4.1    William L. Rowe 
        ‘The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties on Atheism’ 317 
    4.2    Paul Draper 
        ‘Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theists’ 328 
    4.3    William P. Alston 
        ‘Some (Temporarily) Final Thoughts on Evidential Arguments from Evil’ 346 
    4.4    Peter van Inwagen 
        ‘The Magnitude, Duration, and Distribution of Evil: A Theodicy’ 370 
    4.5    Eleonore Stump 
        ‘The Problem of Evil’ 394 
    Suggested Reading 425 

PART V THE SOUL AND LIFE EVERLASTING 
 J. P. Moreland 
    The Soul and Life Everlasting: Introduction 429 

    5.1    Paul Churchland 
        ‘A Refutation of Dualism’ 447 
    5.2    John Foster 
        ‘A Defense of Dualism’ 455 
    5.3    Keith E. Yandell 
        ‘A Defense of Dualism’ 476 
    5.4    Richard Swinburne 
        'Dualism and Personal Identity’ 496 
    5.5    Stephen T. Davis 
        ‘The Resurrection of the Dead’ 517 
    Suggested Reading 538 

PART VI CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY 
    Michael Murray 
    Christian Theology: Introduction 543 

    Trinity 
    6.1    Richard Swinburne 
        ‘A Defense of the Doctrine of the Trinity’ 556 
    Incarnation 
    6.2    Thomas V. Morris 
        ‘The Two Minds View of Incarnation’ 568 
    Hell
    6.3    Michael J. Murray 
        ‘Heaven and Hell’ 577 
    Atonement
    6.4    Steven Porter 
        Rethinking the Logic of Penal Submission 596 
    Prayer
    6.5    Eleonor Stump 
        Petitionary Prayer’ 609 
    Suggested Reading 625 

Notes on the Editors 627 
Acknowledgements 629 
Index 633