Is God a Delusion?: A Reply to Religion's Cultured Despisers

Is God a Delusion?: A Reply to Religion's Cultured Despisers

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-248

  Reitan, Eric ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873723821     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306088     Document Type: Book

References (129)

1. Adams, M. M. (1990) "Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God," in The Problem of Evil, eds. Adams and Adams, pp. 209-21.
2. Adams, M. M. (2002) "Neglected Values, Shrunken Agents, Happy Endings: A Reply to Rogers," Faith and Philosophy 19: 487-505.
3. Adams, M. M. (2006) Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
4. Adams, R. M. (1979) "Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again," Journal of Religious Ethics 7: 66-71.
5. Adams, M. M. and Adams, R. M. (1990) The Problem of Evil. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
6. Allen, D. (1990) "Natural Evil and the Love of God," in The Problem of Evil, eds. Adams and Adams, pp. 189-208.
7. Alston, W. P. (1983) "Christian Experience and Christian Belief," in Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God, eds. Plantinga and Wolterstorff, pp. 103-34.
8. Alston, W. P. (1991) Perceiving God: A Study in the Epistemology of Religious Experience. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY.
9. Alston, W. P. (2004) "Religious Experience Justifies Religious Belief," in M. L. Peterson and R. J. Vanarragon (eds.) Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion. Blackwell Publishing: Oxford, pp. 135-45.
10. Anselm (1998) "Proslogion," in Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works, eds. B. Davies and G. R. Evans, trans. M. J. Charlesworth. Oxford University Press: Oxford. (First published in 1078.)
11. Aquinas, T. (1952) Summa Theologica, trans. The Fathers of the English Dominican Province (revised by D. J. Sullivan). Encyclopedia Britannica: Chicago. (Originally published in 1273.)
12. Behe, M. J. (1996) Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. The Free Press: New York.
13. Bishop, J. (1998) "Can There be Alternative Concepts of God?" Noûs 32: 174-88.
14. Boyce, M. (1979) Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Routledge & Kegan Paul: London.
15. Christian, C. W. (1979) Friedrich Schleiermacher. Word Books: Waco, TX.
16. Clarke, S. (1998) A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God and Other Writings, ed. E. Vailati. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (Originally published in 1705.)
17. Collins, R. (2003) "God, Design, and Fine-tuning," in God Matters: Readings in the Philosophy of Religion, eds. R. Martin and C. Bernard. Longman: New York.
18. Collins, R. (2005) "The Many-worlds Hypothesis as an Explanation of Cosmic Fine-tuning: An Alternative to Design?" Faith & Philosophy 22: 654-66.
19. Copleston, F. C. and Russell, B. (1964) "The Existence of God: A Debate between Bertrand Russell and Father F. C. Copleston," in The Existence of God, ed. J. Hick. Macmillan: New York.
20. Dawkins, R. (1995) River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life. Basic Books: New York.
21. Dawkins, R. (2006) The God Delusion. Houghton Mifflin: Boston.
22. Dennett, D. C. (2006) Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. Penguin Books: New York.
23. Dennett, D. C. (2007) "The God Delusion" (March letter to the editor in response to January 11, 2007 review by H. Allen Orr). The New York Review of Books 54(3). Available from http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19928 (Accessed 6 April 2007).
24. Dobson, J. (2001) Bringing Up Boys: Practical Advice and Encouragement for Those Shaping the Next Generation of Men. Tyndale House: Carol Stream, IL.
25. Du Plessix Gray, F. (2001) Simone Weil. Viking: New York.
26. Edwards, P. (1959) "The Cosmological Argument," The Rationalist Annual. Pemberton: London, pp. 63-77.
27. Egner, R. E. and Denonn, L. E. (eds.) (1961) The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell. Simon & Schuster: New York.
28. Einstein, A. (2007) The World as I See It. The Book Tree: San Diego.
29. Flew, A., Hare, R. M., and Mitchell, B. (2005) "Theology and Falsification," in Ten Essential Texts in the Philosophy of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Issues, ed. S. Cahn. Oxford University Press: New York, pp. 462-72.
30. Frank, P. (1947) Einstein: His Life and Times. A. A. Knopf: New York.
31. Gould, S. J. (1989) Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. W. W. Norton: New York.
32. Gould, S. J. (1992) "Impeaching a Self-appointed Judge," Scientific American 267: 118-21.
33. Gould, S. J. (1997) "Nonoverlapping Magisteria," Natural History 106: 16-22.
34. Gould, S. J. (1999) Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life. Ballantine: New York.
35. Griffiths, P. J. (1999) Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion. Oxford University Press: New York.
36. Hare, J. E. (1996) The Moral Gap: Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God's Assistance. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
37. Harris, S. (2004) The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Unreason. W. W. Norton: New York.
38. Harris, S. (2006) Letter to a Christian Nation. Alfred A. Knopf: New York.
39. Hendricks, O. M. (2006) The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted. Doubleday: New York.
40. Hick, J. (1987) Faith and Knowledge: A Modern Introduction to the Problem of Religious Knowledge. Macmillan: London.
41. Hick, J. (1989a) An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT.
42. Hick, J. (1989b) "Seeing-as and Religious Experience" in Faith, ed. T. Penelhum. Macmillan: New York, pp. 183-92.
43. Hick, J. (2001) "An Irenaean Theodicy," in Encountering Evil: Live Options in Theodicy, ed. S. T. Davis. Westminster John Knox Press: Louisville, KY, pp. 38-51.
44. Hitchens, C. (2007) god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve: New York.
45. Hume, D. (1989) Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Prometheus Books: Buffalo, NY. (First published in 1779.)
46. James, W. (1897) The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy. Longmans, Green: New York.
47. James, W. (1914) The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Experience. Longmans, Green: London.
48. Kant, I. (1958) The Critique of Pure Reason, trans. N. Kemp-Smith. The Modern Library: New York.
49. Kant, I. (1960) Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, trans. T. M. Greene and H. H. Hudson. Harper & Row: New York.
50. Kant, I. (1993) Critique of Practical Reason, trans. L. W. Beck. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ.
51. Kertzer, D. I. (1998) The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. Vintage: New York.
52. King, M. L. (1986) "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence," in A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., ed. J. M. Washington. HarperCollins: San Francisco.
53. Kretzmann, N. (1999) The Metaphysics of Creation: Aquinas's Natural Theology in Summa Contra Gentiles II. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
54. Kronen, J. and Reitan, E. (1999) "Homosexuality, Misogyny, and God's Plan," Faith and Philosophy 16: 213-32.
55. Kronen, J. and Reitan, E. (2004) "Talbott's Universalism, Divine Justice, and the Atonement," Religious Studies 40: 249-68.
56. Ladd, J. (1991) "The Idea of Collective Violence," in Justice, Law, and Violence, eds. J. B. Brady and N. Garver. Temple University Press: Philadelphia.
57. Leibniz, G. (1965a) Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays, trans. P. Schrecker and A. M. Schrecker. Bobbs-Merrill Educational Publishing: Indianapolis.
58. Leibniz, G. (1965b) "On the Ultimate Origination of the Universe," in Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays, pp. 84-94. (Written in 1697.)
59. Leibniz, G. (1965c) "Monadology," in Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays (1965), pp. 148-63. (Written in 1714.)
60. Leibniz, G. (1973) "Discourse on Metaphysics," in Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics/Correspondence with Arnauld/Monadology, trans. G. R. Montgomery. Open Court Publishing: La Salle, IL.
61. Lotze, H. (1886) Outlines of the Philosophy of Religion: Dictated Portions of the Lectures of Hermann Lotze, trans. G. T. Ladd. Ginn: Boston.
62. Lutes, J. (n. d.) A False Focus on My Family. Soulforce Booklet: Lynchburg, VA.
63. Mackie, J. L. (1982) The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
64. Malcolm, N. (1960) "Anselm's Ontological Arguments," The Philosophical Review 69: 41-62.
65. Martin, M. (1990) Atheism: A Philosophical Justification. Temple University Press: Philadelphia.
66. Martin, M. (1991) The Case Against Christianity. Temple University Press: Philadelphia.
67. McGrath, A. (2005) Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford.
68. McGrath, A. and McGrath, J. A. (2007) The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine. InterVarsity Press: Downers Grove, IL.
69. McLellan, D. (1990) Utopian Pessimist: The Life and Thought of Simone Weil. Poseidon Press: New York.
70. Melanchthon, P. (1965) Melanchthon on Christian Doctrine: Loci communes 1555, trans. and ed. C. L. Manschreck. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
71. Menssen, S. and Sullivan, T. D. (2007) The Agnostic Inquirer: Revelation from a Philosophical Standpoint. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, MI.
72. Miller, K. R. (1999) Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution. HarperCollins: New York.
73. Mills, D. (2006) Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism. Ulysses Press: Berkeley, CA.
74. Morris, R. (1990) The Edges of Science. Prentice Hall: New York.
75. Persinger, M. A. (1987) Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs. Praeger Publishers: New York.
76. Petrement, S. (1976) Simone Weil: A Life, trans. from the French by R. Rosenthal. Pantheon Books: New York.
77. Pickering, W. S. F. (1975) Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies. Readings trans. J. Redding and W. S. F. Pickering. Routledge & Kegan Paul: London.
78. Plantinga, A. (1974) God, Freedom, and Evil. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, MI.
79. Plantinga, A. (1983) "Reason and Belief in God," in Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God, eds. A. Plantinga and N. Wolterstorff, pp. 16-93.
80. Plantinga, A. (1993a) Warrant and Proper Function. Oxford University Press: New York.
81. Plantinga, A. (1993b) Warrant: The Current Debate. Oxford University Press: New York.
82. Plantinga, A. (2000) Warranted Christian Belief. Oxford University Press: New York.
83. Plantinga, A. (2007) "The Dawkins Confusion: Naturalism ad absurdum." Books & Culture: A Christian Review 13(2). Available from http://www. christianitytoday.com/bc/2007/002/1.21.html (Accessed 4 April 2007).
84. Plantinga, A. and Wolterstorff, N. (eds.) (1983) Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God. University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame, IN.
85. Plutarch (1993) "Superstition," in Plutarch: Selected Essays and Dialogues, trans. and ed. D. Russell. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-12.
86. Pope, H. (1909) "Faith," in The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, Vol. 5: 752-9. Robert Appleton: New York.
87. Pruss, A. (2004) "A Restricted Principle of Sufficient Reason and the Cosmological Argument," Religious Studies 40: 165-79.
88. Putnam, H. (1981) Reason, Truth, and History. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
89. Reitan, E. (2000) "Does the Argument from Evil Assume a Consequentialist Morality?" Faith and Philosophy 17: 304-19.
90. Reitan, E. (2001) "Universalism and Autonomy: Towards a Comparative Defense of Universalism," Faith and Philosophy 18: 222-40.
91. Reitan, E. (2002a) "Eternal Damnation and Blessed Ignorance: Is the Damnation of Some Incompatible with the Salvation of Any?" Religious Studies 38: 429-50.
92. Reitan, E. (2002b) "Sympathy for the Damned: Schleiermacher's Critique of the Doctrine of Limited Salvation." Southwest Philosophy Review 18: 201-11.
93. Reitan, E. (2003) "Human Freedom and the Impossibility of Eternal Damnation," in Universal Salvation? The Current Debate, eds. R. Parry and C. Partridge. Paternoster Press: Carlisle.
94. Reitan, E. (2007a) "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin? The Case of Homosexuality." Free Inquiry 27: 42-3.
95. Reitan, E. (2007b) "A Guarantee of Universal Salvation?" Faith and Philosophy 24: 413-32.
96. Rowe, W. (1970) "Two Criticisms of the Cosmological Argument," The Monist 54: 441-59.
97. Rowe, W. (1979) "The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism," American Philosophical Quarterly 16: 33-41.
98. Rowe, W. (2007) Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction. 4th edn. Thomson Wadsworth: Belmont, CA.
99. Russell, B. (1961a) "The Essence of Religion," in The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, eds. R. E. Egner and L. E. Denonn, pp. 565-76. (Originally published in 1912 in The Hibbert Journal, vol. 2.)
100. Russell, B. (1961b) "Why I am Not a Christian," in The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, eds. R. E. Egner and L. E. Denonn, pp. 585-97. (Originally a lecture delivered in 1927.)
101. Russell, B. (1997) "Is There a God?" in The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, eds. J. C. Slater and P. Kollner, vol. 11. Routledge: London, pp. 542-48. (Written in 1952.)
102. Sagan, C. (2006) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search For God, ed. A. Druyan. Penguin Press: New York.
103. Sartre, J.-P. (1948) Anti-Semite and Jew. Schocken Books: New York.
104. Schleiermacher, F. (1928) The Christian Faith, eds. H. R. Mackintosh and J. S. Stewart. T&T Clark: Edinburgh. Translation (multiple translators) of the 2nd German edition of 1830. (Original title: Glaubenslehre.)
105. Schleiermacher, F. (1958) On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers, trans. J. Oman. Harper & Row: New York.
106. Schleiermacher F. (1987) Servant of the Word: Selected Sermons of Friedrich Schleiermacher, trans. D. DeVries. Fortress Press: Philadelphia.
107. Scriven, M. (1966) Primary Philosophy. McGraw-Hill: New York.
108. Smith, G. D. (ed.) (1962) The Teachings of the Catholic Church: A Summary of Catholic Doctrine. Vol. II. Macmillan: New York.
109. Smith, G. H. (1979) Atheism: The Case Against God. Prometheus Books: Buffalo, NY.
110. Stace, W. T. (1960) Mysticism and Philosophy. J. B. Lippincott Company: Philadelphia.
111. Stenger, V. J. (2007) God: The Failed Hypothesis. Prometheus Books: Amherst, NY.
112. Swenson, D. F. (1981) "The Dignity of Human Life," in The Meaning of Life, ed. E. D. Klemke. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 20-30.
113. Swinburne, R. (1981) Faith and Reason. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
114. Swinburne, R. (1998) Providence and the Problem of Evil. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
115. Talbott, T. (2001) "Freedom, Damnation, and the Power to Sin with Impunity," Religious Studies 37: 417-34.
116. Tanner, N. P. (ed.) (1990) Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, Volume II. Sheed & Ward: London.
117. Teilhard de Chardin, P. (1969) How I Believe. Harper & Row: New York.
118. Van Biema, D. (2006) "God vs. Science." Time Magazine (5 November): 49-55.
119. Weil, S. (1951) Waiting for God, trans. E. Craufurd. G. P. Putnam's Sons: New York. (Originally published in 1950.)
120. Weil, S. (1952a) Gravity and Grace, trans. A. F. Wills. G. P. Putnam's Sons: New York. (Originally published in 1947.)
121. Weil, S. (1952b) The Need for Roots, trans. A. F. Wills. Routledge & Kegan Paul: London. (Originally published in 1949.)
122. Wise, K. (2000) "Geology," in In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Chose to Believe in Creation, ed. J. F. Ashton. Master Books: Green Forest, AR, pp. 351-5.
123. Wittgenstein, L. (1953) Philosophical Investigations, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe. Macmillan: New York.
124. Wittgenstein, L. (1961) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuinness. Routledge & Kegan Paul: London.
125. Wolpert, L. (2007) Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief. W. W. Norton: New York.
126. Wykstra, S. J. (1990) "The Humean Obstacle to Evidential Arguments from Suffering: On Avoiding the Evils of 'Appearance,'" in The Problem of Evil, eds. Adams and Adams, pp. 138-60.
127. Zaehner, R. C. (1957) Mysticism Sacred and Profane: An Inquiry into Some Varieties of Praeternatural Experience. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
128. Zaehner, R. C. (1961) The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism. Phoenix Press: New York.
129. Zaehner, R. C. (1997) "Dialectical Materialism," in Encyclopedia of the World's Religions. Barnes & Noble Books: New York. (Originally published in 1959 as The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Living Faiths.)