Philosophy of Religion:
For Further Reading
 
 
 

 
 

Here are some interesting and fun-to-read books related to a few of the topics discussed in class. None of these is required or expected for the course, but if you are curious about a topic and would like to explore it some more, these are some fun places to start.

Some fun to read books:

God? A Debate Between A Christian and an Atheist, by William Lane Craig and Walter Sinott-Armstrong, (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004)

The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, by Robin Lane Fox, (New York, NY: Vintage, 1993)

DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman, (South Paris, ME: Park Street Press, 2000)

Religion and the Enlightenment: From Descartes to Kant by James M. Byrne, (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997)

Some good popular science books on evolution and the age of the universe:

The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins (New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1986)

Science on Trial by Douglas Futuyma, (Sinauer Associates, 1995)

The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe by John Gribbin, (Yale University Press, 2001)

Some more advanced works in philosophy of religion:

Daniel Howard-Snyder, ed., The Evidential Argument From Evil, (Indiana University Press, 1996)

Anthony Kenny, The God of the Philosophers, (Oxford University Press, 1987) - on God's attributes

Michael Martin, Atheism: A Philosophical Justification, (Temple University Press, 1990)

Richard Swinburne, The Existence of God, (Oxford University Press)