God, concepts of

References and further reading

	Alcinous (2nd century) The Handbook of Platonism, trans. J. Dillon, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. (Synopsis of Middle Platonism.)
	Alston, W. (1989) Divine Nature and Human Language, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Important essays on divine action, knowledge and timelessness.)
	Anselm (1076) Monologion, trans. J. Hopkins and H. Richardson, in J. Hopkins and H. Richardson (eds and trans) Anselm of Canterbury, Toronto, Ont.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1974, vol. 1. (‘Perfect-being’ account of God’s existence and nature.)
	Anselm (1077–8) Proslogion, trans. J. Hopkins and H. Richardson, in J. Hopkins and H. Richardson (eds and trans) Anselm of Canterbury, Toronto, Ont.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1974, vol. 1. (Locus classicus of perfect-being theology.)
	Aquinas, T. (1266–73) Summa theologiae, New York: Benziger Brothers, 1948. (Locus classicus of classical theism.)
	Aristotle (mid 4th century) Metaphysics, trans. W.D. Ross, in R. McKeon (ed.) The Basic Works of Aristotle, New York: Random House, 1941. (Primary source for his philosophical theology.)
	Augustine (397–426) Christian Doctrine, trans. F. Shaw, in P. Schaff (ed.) Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994, vol. 2. (On how to interpret Scripture.)
	Augustine (398–425) On the Trinity, trans. A. Haddan and W. Shedd, in P. Schaff (ed.) Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994, vol. 3. (His central treatment of the nature of God.)
	Augustine (388) On the Morals of the Manichaeans, trans. R. Stothert, in P. Schaff (ed.) Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994, vol. 4. (Polemical work, on ethics and metaphysics.)
	Boethius, A.M.S. (c. 522–4) The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. V.E. Watt, New York: Penguin, 1969. (On the nature of happiness, luck, freedom and divine foreknowledge.)
	Chrysostom, J. (390–8) Homilies on St. John, trans. P. Schaff, in P. Schaff (ed.) Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994, vol. 14. (Series of occasionally philosophical sermons.)
	Cicero (45) De natura deorum, trans. H. Rackham, On the Nature of the Gods, London: Heinemann, 1933. (Rich source of Graeco-Roman philosophical theology.)
	Davis, S.T. (1983) Logic and the Nature of God, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. (Readable account of central divine attributes; slightly harder than Morris (1991).)
	Duns Scotus, J. (c. 1306) On the First Principle, trans. A. Wolter, Chicago, IL: Franciscan Herald Press, 1966. (Fullest version of his argument for God’s existence, compact outline of his view of God.)
	Durkheim, É. (1915) The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, London: Allen & Unwin. (Sociological account of religion.)
	Freud, S. (1927) The Future of an Illusion, trans. J. Strachey, New York: W.W. Norton, 1961. (Psychological critique of religious belief.)
	Hartshorne, C. (1948) The Divine Relativity, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. (Exposition of ‘process’ panentheism.)
	Hartshorne, C. and Reese, W. (1953) Philosophers Speak of God, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. (Selective, idiosyncratic history, coloured by the authors’ panentheist views.)
	Levine, M. (1994) Pantheism, New York: Routledge. (Fullest presentation of this view to date.)
	Morris, T.V. (1987) The Concept of God, New York: Oxford University Press. (Collection of important recent articles. Rigorous but not technical.)
	Morris, T.V. (1991) Our Idea of God, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. (Good introduction to issues in philosophical theology.)
	Plato (c. 380–367) Republic, trans. G.M.A. Grube and C.D.C. Reeve, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1992. (The nature of justice, in individuals and society.)
	Plato (c. 366–360) Timaeus, trans. B. Jowett, in E. Hamilton and H. Cairns (eds) Collected Dialogues of Plato, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961. (His cosmology, with some attention to philosophical theology.)
	Plotinus (c. 250–66) Enneads II, trans. A.H. Armstrong, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979. (First Neoplatonist metaphysical system.)
	Proclus (c. 460–70) Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides , trans. G. Morrow and J. Dillon, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. (Really an exposition of Neoplatonist metaphysics and theology.)
	Sontag, F. (1962) Divine Perfection, New York: Harper. (Impressionistic account of relevant intuitions.)
	Swinburne, R. (1993) The Coherence of Theism, New York: Oxford University Press, revised edn. (Clear, careful treatment of central divine attributes.)
	Tillich, P. (1955) Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. (On religion’s relation to philosophy.)