Reason and Religion

This book covers a variety of approaches to the main issues usually covered by philosophy of religion textbooks, such as the meaning of ""religion,"" six ways of relating theology to philosophy, naturalism versus supernaturalism and their respective difficulties, an explanation and defense of process theism or panentheism, God's attributes, critiques and defenses of the ontological, cosmological, and teleological arguments, religious experience including pluralistic and monistic mysticism, verification after death, and the future of reason and religion. In dealing with the arguments for the existence of God, theism wins. Though published some decades ago, there is very little in this book that the author would change today. Rem B. Edwards is Lindsay Young Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he taught for thirty-two years. He has published twenty-one books and more than ninety-five articles and reviews. His three most recent books are John Wesley's Values--and Ours (2012), Spiritual Values and Evaluations (2012), and An Axiological Process Ethics (2014). In graduate school, he was a Danforth Graduate Fellow. He received a BD degree from Yale Divinity School and a PhD in Philosophy from Emory University. His professional website is: https://sites.google.com/site/rembedwards/. Email him at: [email protected].