It brings together an international team of leading philosophers of religion to explore and debate radical new ideas about religion, God, and ultimate reality.

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.

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