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study. A general, non-philosophical introduction to the issues is provided by Christopher
Tuckett, Reading the New Testament (London: SPCK, 1987). On the subject of the
reliability of the Gospels see Peter Vardy and Mary Mills, The Puzzle of the Gospels
(London: Fount, 1995) which is very introductory, and E.P. Sanders, The Historical
Figure of Jesus (London: Penguin Books, 1995) which is sophisticated but very clear
and readable. Philosophers and biblical scholars come together, though not harmoniously,
in Eleonore Stump and Thomas P. Flint (eds), Hermes and Athena: Biblical
Exegesis and Philosophical Theology (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press,
1993).
In their essays and replies the present authors draw upon a range of philosophical
claims lying outwith philosophy of religion as such. The main areas within
which these lie are metaphysics and philosophy of mind. Smart has set out and
defended his general philosophical views in Our Place in the Universe (Oxford: Blackwell,
1989) and both he and Haldane are represented by essays advocating physicalist
and anti-physicalist positions, respectively, in Richard Warner and Tadeusz Szubka
(eds), The Mind–Body Problem: A Guide to the Current Debate (Oxford: Blackwell,
1994). Apart from their differences regarding the truth of theism, they are united
in holding to some version of metaphysical realism but opposed over the question of
philosophical naturalism. For recent essays on these two central issues in contemporary
philosophy see J. Haldane and Crispin Wright (eds), Reality, Representation
and Projection (New York: Oxford, 1993) and Stephen Wagner and Richard Warner
(eds), Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press,
1993).
Additional bibliographical items (2nd edition): Marilyn McCord Adams, Horrendous
Evils and the Goodness of God (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999), William
Lane Craig and Quentin Smith, Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1996), J. Houston, Reported Miracles (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1994), John Leslie (ed.), Modern Cosmology and Philosophy (Buffalo:
Prometheus Books, 1998), Barry Miller, A Most Unlikely God (Notre Dame: University
of Notre Dame Press, 1996), David O’Connor, God and Inscrutable Evil: In
Defense of Theism and Atheism (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), Robert
T. Pennock (ed.), Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological,
and Scientific Perspectives (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), William
L. Rowe (ed.), God and the Problem of Evil (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), Daniel Howard-
Snyder (ed.), The Evidential Argument from Evil (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1996), Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul K. Moser (eds), Divine Hiddenness:
New Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), Richard Swinburne,
Providence and the Problem of Evil (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), Nicholas
Wolterstorff, Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Graham Oppy, Ontological Arguments
and Belief in God (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), is a comprehensive
examination of various forms and variants of the ontological argument. Timothy
McGrew, Lydia McGrew and Eric Vestrup, ‘Probabilities and the Fine-Tuning
Argument’, Mind 110 (2001), 138–47, object with mathematical considerations
in probability theory to Leslie’s use of the fine-tuning argument. Behe’s argument