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Alston, W. (1991) Perceiving God, Cornell, NY: Cornell University Press. (Powerful and probing inquiry into the justification of Christian belief; it concludes that religious belief can receive justification by way of perceiving God. Requires a little preliminary work in epistemology.) |
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Blanshard, B. (1974) Reason and Belief, London: Allen & Unwin, 400–. (Elegant statement of a rationalist position with respect to the justification of religious belief.) |
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Clifford, W.K. (1879) ‘The Ethics of Belief’, Lectures and Essays, London: Macmillan. (Classic statement of the position that belief without evidence is unjustifiable and contrary to duty.) |
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Edwards, J. (1746) Religious Affections, ed.
J.E.
Smith, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1959. (Not explicitly on the topic of the epistemology of religious belief, but contains a wealth of suggestions about the work of the Holy Spirit in producing Christian belief.) |
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Freud, S. (1927) Die Zukunft einer Illusion, Leipzig and Zurich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag; trans. and ed.
J.
Strachey, The Future of an Illusion, New York and London: W.W. Norton. (Freud’s account of the nature and prospects of religious belief.) |
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Gale, R. (1991) On the Nature and Existence of God, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (An inquiry into the question as to whether there are any good arguments for or against the existence of God. Technical in places.) |
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Locke, J. (1689) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, with Locke’s ‘Prolegomena’, ed.
A.
Fraser, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1894; New York: Dover, 1959, bk IV. (An influential source of the dominant contemporary way of thinking about the justification of religious belief.) |
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Mackie, J. (1982) The Miracle of Theism, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Perhaps the best contemporary argument for the position that theistic belief is unjustified.) |
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Marx, K. and Engels, F. (1844) Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, in R.
Niebuhr (ed.) On Religion, Chicago, IL: Scholars Press, 1964. (Contains Marx’s and Engels’ account and criticism of religious belief.) |
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Plantinga, A. (1974) God, Freedom and Evil, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. (Argues that there is no inconsistency in the propositions that God exists and that there is evil.) |
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Plantinga, A. (1998) Warranted Christian Belief, New York: Oxford University Press. (Argues that the epistemological objections to Christian belief fail, that Christian belief is warranted if true, and that belief in naturalism is irrational.) |
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Swinburne, R. (1979) The Existence of God, Oxford: Clarendon Press; revised edn, 1991. (Detailed and powerful development of the theistic argument from design.) |
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Wolterstorff, N. and Plantinga, A. (1983) Faith and Rationality, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. (An influential collection of essays by the editors and others on the rationality or justification of Christian and theistic belief; for the most part the essays reject classical foundationalism with respect to theistic belief.) |
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Wykstra, S. (1989) ‘Towards a Sensible Evidentialism: On the Notion of “Needing Evidence”’, in W.
Rowe and W.
Wainwright (eds) Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. (Argues that the sort of evidentialism associated with classical foundationalism is extravagant and clearly mistaken, but that there is a more restrained variety of evidentialism that makes much better sense.) |