Philosophy of Religion

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• A Candid Examination of Theism — George John Romanes — George John Romanes, writing as Physicus, critically examines arguments for theism in seven chapters, an appendix, and four essays.
• A Pluralistic Universe — William James — William James's complete Hibbert Lectures on pluralism, radical empiricism, consciousness, religious experience, and a finite God.
• A Preface to Morals — Walter Lippmann — Walter 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 Amberley — Viscount Amberley critically compares ritual, sacred persons, scriptures, and religious sentiment across a complete two-part study.
• Creative Evolution — Henri Bergson — Henri Bergson develops a philosophy of duration, life, instinct, intelligence, evolution, matter, and creative becoming.
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion — David Hume — David Hume’s complete twelve-part dialogue examines design, causation, divine attributes, evil, skepticism, and natural religion.
• Essays in Radical Empiricism — William James — William James's complete posthumous collection of twelve essays on pure experience, consciousness, relations, humanism, and truth.
• God and the World — Arthur W. Robinson — Arthur 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 Draper — John William Draper's complete twelve-chapter history of the alleged conflict between religious authority and scientific inquiry.
• Life and Matter — Sir Oliver Lodge — Oliver Lodge critiques Ernst Haeckel’s monism and develops a historical argument about life, mind, matter, and guidance.
• Miracles and Supernatural Religion — James Morris Whiton — James Morris Whiton reconsiders biblical miracles, natural law, and supernatural religion in an early-twentieth-century theological study.
• Morality as a Religion — W. R. Washington Sullivan — W. 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 Russell — Bertrand Russell's complete collection of ten essays on mysticism, mathematics, science, causality, matter, and knowledge.
• Natural Law in the Spiritual World — Henry Drummond — Henry Drummond applies nineteenth-century ideas of natural law and biological continuity to Christian spiritual life.
• Naturalism and Religion — Rudolf Otto — Rudolf Otto examines naturalistic and religious worldviews in a complete twelve-chapter historical translation.
• Philosophy and Religion — Hastings Rashdall — Hastings Rashdall presents six Cambridge lectures on idealism, God, moral consciousness, revelation, and Christianity.
• Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts — Henry Rogers — Henry Rogers examines the mutual claims of reason and Christian faith in a complete 1849 Edinburgh Review essay.
• Reason, the Only Oracle of Man — Ethan Allen — Ethan Allen develops an American deist system of natural religion grounded in reason, nature, morality, and criticism of revelation.
• Religion and Science — John Charlton Hardwick — John Charlton Hardwick traces the changing relations of religion, science, and philosophy from Galileo through Bergson.
• Science and the Infinite — Sydney T. Klein — Sydney 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 edition — Joseph 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 Perry — Ralph Barton Perry approaches philosophy through practical life, poetry, religion, science, metaphysics, knowledge, and systematic traditions.
• The Churches and Modern Thought — Philip Vivian — Philip Vivian surveys modern unbelief through miracles, Bible criticism, comparative mythology, evolution, theism, and ethics.
• The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Religion, a Dialogue, Etc. — Arthur Schopenhauer — Arthur Schopenhauer examines religion, pantheism, reading, physiognomy, psychology, and Christianity in six translated essays.
• The Essence of Christianity — Ludwig Feuerbach — George Eliot translation — Ludwig Feuerbach interprets Christian theology as a projection of human nature in Marian Evans’s complete historical translation.
• The Ether of Space — Sir Oliver Lodge — Sir Oliver Lodge's complete 1909 account of the luminiferous ether, its experimental tests, and its proposed relation to matter.
• The Foundations of Science — Henri Poincaré — Henri 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 Fiske — John Fiske traces changing concepts of God and argues for an immanent evolutionary theism across fourteen sections.
• The Meaning of Truth — William James — William James's complete sequel to Pragmatism, collecting fifteen essays and replies on truth, knowledge, humanism, and criticism.
• The Philosophy of Natural Theology — William Jackson — William Jackson defends natural theology against materialism through seven chapters with extensive philosophical and scientific supplements.
• The Relations of Science and Religion — Henry Calderwood — Henry Calderwood’s complete Morse Lectures examine nineteenth-century science, evolution, mind, miracles, and Christian theology.
• The Religious Sentiment — Daniel G. Brinton — Daniel G. Brinton examines the psychological, rational, mythical, and ritual dimensions of religious life in seven chapters.
• The Sources of Religious Insight — Josiah Royce — Josiah 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 Muir — M. 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 Lodge — Oliver Lodge presents a sixth-edition catechism connecting religious teaching with his period’s scientific worldview.
• The Sympathy of Religions — Thomas Wentworth Higginson — Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s complete 1870 address argues for shared moral and spiritual life across historical religions.
• Theism — Robert Flint — Robert Flint’s ten Baird lectures develop a systematic nineteenth-century philosophical defense of theism with an extensive appendix.
• Theism and Humanism — Arthur James Balfour — Arthur James Balfour argues that aesthetic, ethical, and intellectual values require a theistic foundation across ten lectures.
• Theism or Atheism — Chapman Cohen — Chapman Cohen presents a two-part freethought critique of theism and defenses of atheism across fifteen chapters.
• Thoughts on Religion — George John Romanes — Charles Gore edition — George John Romanes's posthumous essays and working notes on science, agnosticism, faith, causality, Christianity, and religious belief.
• Through Nature to God — John Fiske — John Fiske connects evolution, evil, altruism, moral development, and religious belief across three complete philosophical essays.