1.
What Is Philosophy?
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What Is Religion?
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What Is Philosophy of Religion?
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How Is the Word "God" Generally Used?
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How Do Various Theists Use the Word "God"?
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What Is Knowledge?
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What Kinds of Evidence Count?
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What Constitutes Good Evidence?
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Why Argue for the Existence of God?
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How Ontological Argument Works
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Why Ontological Argument Is Said to Fail
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How Cosmological Argument Works
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Why Cosmological Argument Is Said to Fail
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How Teleological Argument Works
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How Teleological Argument Works (Continued)
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Why Teleological Argument Is Said to Fail
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Divine Encounters Make Argument Unnecessary
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Divine Encounters Require Interpretation
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Why Is Evil a Problem?
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Taking Evil Seriously
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Non-Justificatory Theodicies
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Justifying Evil
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Justifying Natural Evil
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Justifying Human Evil
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Evidence Is Irrelevant to Faith
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Groundless Faith Is Irrelevant to Life
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God Is Beyond Human Grasp, but That's O.K.
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Transcendental Talk Is "Sound and Fury"
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Discourse in an Intentionalist Paradigm
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Evaluating Paradigms
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Choosing and Changing Paradigms
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Language Games and Theistic Discourse
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Fabulation — Theism as Story
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Theistic Stories, Morality, and Culture
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Stories, Moral Progress, and Culture Reform
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Conclusions and Signposts