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This book offers a historical introduction to fundamental questions in the philosophy of religion. It is divided into twenty-five chapters. The first chapter discusses the nature of piety drawing on Plato's Euthyphro. The next three chapters discuss the nature of evil, free will, foreknowledge, and sin in the context of Augustine's On Free Choice of Will. Chapter 5 discusses Anslem's "ontological" argument for the existence of God. Chapter 6 explores Ibn Sina's account of the nature of the soul and immortality. The next two chapters explore the foundations of religious belief and mysticism in the company of al-Ghazali's The Rescuer from Error. Chapters 9 through 11 discuss Aquinas's arguments for the existence of God as well as his account of God's impersonal and personal attributes. The twelfth chapter explores Marguerite Porete's account of mystical ascent as well as the doctrines of heaven and hell. Chapter 13 discusses Pascal's pragmatic argument for belief in the existence of God. Chapters 14 through 16 address Spinoza's understanding of God, our relationship to God, and the foundations of morality. Chapters 17 through 19 explore the argument from design, the existence of God, deism, and the problem of evil. In chapter 20 Mary Shepherd's defense of belief in miracles is investigated, while chapter 21 explores Mill's views on the utility of religion. Finally, chapters 23 through 25 explore the origins of modern morality and the relationship between religion and nihilism in the company of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality.

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