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Philosophy of Religion
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A Candid Examination of Theism — George John RomanesGeorge John Romanes, writing as Physicus, critically examines arguments for theism in seven chapters, an appendix, and four essays.A Pluralistic Universe — William JamesWilliam James's complete Hibbert Lectures on pluralism, radical empiricism, consciousness, religious experience, and a finite God.A Preface to Morals — Walter LippmannWalter Lippmann examines moral life after the loss of inherited religious certainty and develops a modern humanist discipline of freedom and restraint.An Analysis of Religious Belief — Viscount AmberleyViscount Amberley critically compares ritual, sacred persons, scriptures, and religious sentiment across a complete two-part study.Creative Evolution — Henri BergsonHenri Bergson develops a philosophy of duration, life, instinct, intelligence, evolution, matter, and creative becoming.Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion — David HumeDavid Hume’s complete twelve-part dialogue examines design, causation, divine attributes, evil, skepticism, and natural religion.Essays in Radical Empiricism — William JamesWilliam James's complete posthumous collection of twelve essays on pure experience, consciousness, relations, humanism, and truth.God and the World — Arthur W. RobinsonArthur W. Robinson surveys arguments concerning God, science, evolution, suffering, life, mind, and human freedom across nine chapters.History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science — John William DraperJohn William Draper's complete twelve-chapter history of the alleged conflict between religious authority and scientific inquiry.Life and Matter — Sir Oliver LodgeOliver Lodge critiques Ernst Haeckel’s monism and develops a historical argument about life, mind, matter, and guidance.Miracles and Supernatural Religion — James Morris WhitonJames Morris Whiton reconsiders biblical miracles, natural law, and supernatural religion in an early-twentieth-century theological study.Morality as a Religion — W. R. Washington SullivanW. R. Washington Sullivan develops Ethical Religion through seventeen chapters on science, theism, conscience, prayer, death, war, and marriage.Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays — Bertrand RussellBertrand Russell's complete collection of ten essays on mysticism, mathematics, science, causality, matter, and knowledge.Natural Law in the Spiritual World — Henry DrummondHenry Drummond applies nineteenth-century ideas of natural law and biological continuity to Christian spiritual life.Naturalism and Religion — Rudolf OttoRudolf Otto examines naturalistic and religious worldviews in a complete twelve-chapter historical translation.Philosophy and Religion — Hastings RashdallHastings Rashdall presents six Cambridge lectures on idealism, God, moral consciousness, revelation, and Christianity.Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts — Henry RogersHenry Rogers examines the mutual claims of reason and Christian faith in a complete 1849 Edinburgh Review essay.Reason, the Only Oracle of Man — Ethan AllenEthan Allen develops an American deist system of natural religion grounded in reason, nature, morality, and criticism of revelation.Religion and Science — John Charlton HardwickJohn Charlton Hardwick traces the changing relations of religion, science, and philosophy from Galileo through Bergson.Science and the Infinite — Sydney T. KleinSydney T. Klein develops a historical mystical metaphysics through eight views on perception, symbolism, space, time, and creation.The Analogy of Religion — Joseph Butler — Howard Malcolm editionJoseph Butler argues from the analogy of nature to natural and revealed religion in a complete edition with dissertations and Howard Malcolm’s apparatus.The Approach to Philosophy — Ralph Barton PerryRalph Barton Perry approaches philosophy through practical life, poetry, religion, science, metaphysics, knowledge, and systematic traditions.The Churches and Modern Thought — Philip VivianPhilip Vivian surveys modern unbelief through miracles, Bible criticism, comparative mythology, evolution, theism, and ethics.The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Religion, a Dialogue, Etc. — Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer examines religion, pantheism, reading, physiognomy, psychology, and Christianity in six translated essays.The Essence of Christianity — Ludwig Feuerbach — George Eliot translationLudwig Feuerbach interprets Christian theology as a projection of human nature in Marian Evans’s complete historical translation.The Ether of Space — Sir Oliver LodgeSir Oliver Lodge's complete 1909 account of the luminiferous ether, its experimental tests, and its proposed relation to matter.The Foundations of Science — Henri PoincaréHenri Poincaré's complete three-book collection on scientific reasoning, mathematics, physics, relativity, logic, and method.The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge — John FiskeJohn Fiske traces changing concepts of God and argues for an immanent evolutionary theism across fourteen sections.The Meaning of Truth — William JamesWilliam James's complete sequel to Pragmatism, collecting fifteen essays and replies on truth, knowledge, humanism, and criticism.The Philosophy of Natural Theology — William JacksonWilliam Jackson defends natural theology against materialism through seven chapters with extensive philosophical and scientific supplements.The Relations of Science and Religion — Henry CalderwoodHenry Calderwood’s complete Morse Lectures examine nineteenth-century science, evolution, mind, miracles, and Christian theology.The Religious Sentiment — Daniel G. BrintonDaniel G. Brinton examines the psychological, rational, mythical, and ritual dimensions of religious life in seven chapters.The Sources of Religious Insight — Josiah RoyceJosiah Royce develops seven lectures on religious insight, salvation, loyalty, sorrow, community, and the invisible church.The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry — M. M. Pattison MuirM. M. Pattison Muir's complete illustrated history of alchemical theory, practice, symbolism, and its transformation into chemistry.The Substance of Faith Allied with Science — Sir Oliver LodgeOliver Lodge presents a sixth-edition catechism connecting religious teaching with his period’s scientific worldview.The Sympathy of Religions — Thomas Wentworth HigginsonThomas Wentworth Higginson’s complete 1870 address argues for shared moral and spiritual life across historical religions.Theism — Robert FlintRobert Flint’s ten Baird lectures develop a systematic nineteenth-century philosophical defense of theism with an extensive appendix.Theism and Humanism — Arthur James BalfourArthur James Balfour argues that aesthetic, ethical, and intellectual values require a theistic foundation across ten lectures.Theism or Atheism — Chapman CohenChapman Cohen presents a two-part freethought critique of theism and defenses of atheism across fifteen chapters.Thoughts on Religion — George John Romanes — Charles Gore editionGeorge John Romanes's posthumous essays and working notes on science, agnosticism, faith, causality, Christianity, and religious belief.Through Nature to God — John FiskeJohn Fiske connects evolution, evil, altruism, moral development, and religious belief across three complete philosophical essays.