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    Category: Philosophy Of Religion

    Why We Need Religion

    Why We Need Religion

    Author: Stephen T. Asma
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Religion
    The author is a professor of philosophy at Columbia College in Chicago who has also been a visiting professor at the Buddhist Institute in Cambodia.…… Read More »
    Miracles – A Very Short Introduction

    Miracles – A Very Short Introduction

    Author: Yujin Nagasawa
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Religion
    This is a very fair-minded treatment of miracles, starting with a thorough definition and then moving on to miracles reported in religious texts, belief and…… Read More »
    Pandeism – an Anthology

    Pandeism – an Anthology

    Author: Knujon Mapson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Religion
    Few readers will have heard of the term 'pandeism', the proposition that the Creator of our Universe created by becoming our Universe, but this extensive…… Read More »
    How (not) to be Secular

    How (not) to be Secular

    Author: James K.A. Smith
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Religion
    This book provides a guide to Charles Taylor's major but rather inaccessible work, A Secular Age. His focus is what the author calls 'a shift…… Read More »
    The New Atheism and Its Critics

    The New Atheism and Its Critics

    Authors: Howard K. Wettstein, Peter A. French
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Religion
    This is a volume of Midwest Studies in Philosophy with 12 contributions from different angles of the debate. The initial essay reminds us that it…… Read More »
    There is a God

    There is a God

    Author: Antony Flew
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Religion
    I met Anthony Flew at a number of conferences in the late 1980s and always enjoyed his rigorous approach to any issue under examination. I…… Read More »
    An Enlightened Philosophy

    An Enlightened Philosophy

    Author: Geoff Crocker
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Religion
    An interesting and nuanced reflection on the relationship between science and religion. The author forges a middle way between religious belief and the new atheism…… Read More »
    Reasonable Faith

    Reasonable Faith

    Author: John Haldane
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Religion
    This book of essays follows up John Haldane's earlier volume 'Faithful Reason' and falls into two parts, the first one reason, faith and God, and…… Read More »
    Philosophy of Religion

    Philosophy of Religion

    Author: Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Religion
    A readable new textbook that takes a historical view. It covers all the conventional ground including arguments for the existence of God, approaches to religious…… Read More »
    The Non-Existence of God

    The Non-Existence of God

    Author: Nicholas Everitt
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Religion
    A brilliant analysis of the arguments for and against the existence of God. Although written primarily as a textbook, the clarity of exposition makes it…… Read More »
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