Richard Swinburne, The Existence of God, 2nd ed. (2004), and Faith and Reason, 2nd ed. (2005); and Stephen T. Davis, God, Reason and Theistic Proofs (1997), approach the existence of God from the tradition of natural theology. Paul Helm, Faith with Reason (2000), discusses general issues of faith and reason. William P. Alston, Perceiving God (1991), defends religious experience as a source of the knowledge of God. Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff (eds.), Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God (1983); and Alvin Plantinga, Warrant and Proper Function (1993), and Warranted Christian Belief (2000), develop an alternative to this traditional evidentialist approach, arguing that proof is unnecessary to show that religious belief is reasonable. Paul Helm, The Divine Revelation (1982); Richard Swinburne, Revelation: From Metaphor to Analogy, 2nd ed. (2007); and Nicholas Wolterstorff, Divine Discourse, Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks (1995), discuss revelation. Metaphysics
There are numerous works on the idea of God, among them Richard M. Gale, On the Nature and Existence of God (1991); Paul Helm, A Study of God Without Time (1988, reissued 1997); Alvin Plantinga, God, Freedom and Evil (1974); Richard Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism, rev ed. (1993); and Peter van Inwagen, God, Knowledge & Mystery (1995). Anthony Kenny, The God of the Philosophers (1979, reissued 1986), combines contemporary discussion and historical reflection. William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith, Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology (1993); Keith Ward, Rational Theology and the Creativity of God (1982); William Hasker, God, Time, and Knowledge (1989, reissued 1998); and John B. Cobb and David Ray Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (1976), discuss God and the universe. Thomas V. Morris (ed.), Divine and Human Action (1988); Paul Helm, The Providence of God (1993); and Thomas P. Flint, Divine Providence (1998), examine the place of God in human action. The nature of miracles is discussed in J. Houston, Reported Miracles:A Critique of Hume (1994); and Richard Swinburne, The Concept of Miracle (1970).
Charles Taliaferro, Consciousness and the Mind of God (1994, reissued 2005), offers a defense of mind-body dualism; while D.Z. Phillips, Death and Immortality (1970), is skeptical about the very idea of bodily survival. Religion and morality
Avi Sagi and David Statman, Religion and Morality (1995; originally published in Hebrew, 1993), offers a first-class survey of the issues. John Hick, Evil and the God of Love, 2nd ed. (1977, reissued 1985), contains much valuable historical material and defends what he calls an “Irenaean,” soul-making theodicy. Richard Swinburne, Providence and the Problem of Evil (1998), offers a theodicy in terms of greater good. Peter Byrne, The Moral Interpretation of Religion (1998), discusses the Kantian tradition of understanding religion in moral terms, as well as 20th-century variants. Philip L.Quinn and Kevin Meeker (eds.), The Philosophical Challenge of Religious Diversity (2000), provides arguments for and against exclusivism and pluralism. John Hick, An Interpretation of Religion, 2nd ed. (2004), defends a form of pluralism; as does Peter Byrne, Prolegomena to Religious Pluralism (1995). Realism and antirealism
Joseph Runzo, Is God Real? (1993); Roger Trigg, Reason and Commitment (1973); D.Z. Phillips, Faith and Philosophical Enquiry (1970). Alvin Plantinga, “How to Be an Anti-Realist,” Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 56(1):47–70 (Sept. 1982). Cyril Barrett (ed.), L. Wittgenstein: Lectures & Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief (1966), has been an influential source of contemporary antirealism. Grace M. Jantzen, Becoming Divine (1998), relies on Continental philosophy to outline a feminist philosophy of religion. Paul Helm