Atheism and Theism JJ Haldane - Common Sense Atheism

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Additional sources of historical and contemporary material are the following
anthologies: Baruch A. Brody (ed.), Readings in Philosophy of Religion (Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974); Louis P. Pojman (ed.), Philosophy of Religion: An
Anthology (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1987); and Keith E. Yandell (ed.), God, Man,
and Religion: Readings in the Philosophy of Religion (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973).
Of these, that edited by Pojman is the most comprehensive and up-to-date.
Additional bibliographical items (2nd edition): Leo Elders SVD, The Philosophical
Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990), Norman Kretzmann,
The Metaphysics of Theism: Aquinas’s Natural Theology in ‘Summa Contra, Gentiles’ I
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), Christopher Martin, Thomas Aquinas: God
and Explanations (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998).
Presentations of Atheism
Among contemporary philosophers one of the most prominent advocates of atheism
is A.G.N. Flew. His clear and vigorous style is well displayed in the following works:
God and Philosophy (London: Hutchinson, 1976) and The Presumption of Atheism and
other Essays (New York: Harper & Row, 1976). Two powerful critiques of theism are
presented by J.L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982) and
C.B. Martin, Religious Belief (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1959). See also
Kai Nielsen, Philosophy and Atheism (Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1985) and Michael
Martin, Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
1990).
Additional bibliographical items (2nd edition): Peter Angeles (ed.), Critiques of
God (Buffalo: Prometheus, 1997), Theodore Drange, Nonbelief and Evil: Two Arguments
for the Nonexistence of God (Buffalo: Prometheus, 1998), Doug Krueger, What Is
Atheism? A Short Introduction (Buffalo: Prometheus, 1998), Keith M. Parsons, God and
the Burden of Proof: Plantinga, Swinburne, and the Analytic Defense of Theism (Buffalo:
Prometheus, 1990), Robin Le Poidevin, Arguing for Atheism (London: Routledge,
1996), J.L. Scellenberg, Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1993).
Presentations of Theism
Mackie’s approach is shaped by his concern to refute the arguments for theism
advanced by Richard Swinburne in The Existence of God (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1979) (who replies to Mackie in Appendix A of the revised edition, 1990). In a series
of works, Swinburne has produced one of the most thorough and powerful defences
of Christian theism in modern times. Additional to The Existence of God the works
to date are The Coherence of Theism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977, revised edition
1993), Faith and Reason (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), Responsibility and Atonement
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), Revelation: From Metaphor to Analogy (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1992) and The Christian God (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994). In