PH101 Philosophy of Religion - Heythrop College

module content to
staff research
Learning and teaching
methods
Essential texts
Recommended texts
specifically by staff research.
A mixture of lectures, seminars, tutorials and revision sessions, together with
appropriate reading and set tasks to enable students to apply the skills they
learn.
Essential readings may be accessed via the College Virtual Learning
Environment.
One introductory textbook and one collection of readings taken from the
following lists:
Introductory textbooks
Clack, Beverley and Brian R. Clack, The Philosophy of Religion: a Critical
Introduction (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008) [ISBN 978-0-7456-3868-3].
Davies, Brian, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2004) [ISBN 0-19-926347-7].
Meister, Chad, Introducing Philosophy of Religion (Abingdon: Routledge,
2009) [ISBN 0-415-40327-8].
Peterson, Michael L., God and Evil: an Introduction to the Issues (Boulder,
Colorado; Oxford: Westview Press, 1998) [ISBN 0-813-32849-7].
Peterson, Michael, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach and David Basinger,
Reason and Religious Belief: an Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) [ISBN 0-19-515695-1].
Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus Philosophy of Religion: An Historical Introduction
(Oxford: Blackwell, 2007) [ISBN 978-1-4051-1872-9].
Collections of readings
Adams, Marilyn McCord and Robert Merrihew Adams, eds, The Problem of
Evil (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990) [ISBN 0-198-24866-0].
Davies, Brian, ed. Philosophy of Religion: a Guide and Anthology (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2000) [ISBN 0-198-75194-X].
Eshleman, Andrew, ed., Readings in Philosophy of Religion: East Meets
West (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008) [ISBN 978-1-4051-4717-0].
Frank, Daniel H., Oliver Leaman, and Charles H. Manekin, eds, The Jewish
Philosophy Reader (London: Routledge, 2000) [ISBN 0-415-16860-0].
Meister, Chad, ed., The Philosophy of Religion Reader. (Abingdon:
Routledge, 2008) [ISBN 978-0-414-40891-2].
Peterson, Michael, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, and David Basinger,
eds, Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2007) [ISBN 0-19-518829-2].
Stump, Eleonore, and Michael J Murray, eds, Philosophy of Religion: the Big
Questions (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999) [ISBN 0-631-20604-3].
Taliaferro, Charles and Paul Griffiths, eds, Philosophy of Religion: An
Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003) [ISBN 0-631-21471-2].
(Background reading)
Students who have not studied Philosophy of Religion at A Level are
encouraged to read Peter Vardy and Julie Arliss The Thinker's Guide to God
(Alresford: John Hunt Publishing, 2003) during the first term.