Unit 1: What is God?

• Introduction
• Overview
• A Brief History of the Western Philosophical Tradition
• Definitions of God
• Hartshorne's Challenge to Traditional Theism

Unit 2: Does God Exist?

• Overview
• Anselm's Ontological Argument
• Descartes' Ontological Argument
• Kant's Objections to the Ontological Argument
• The Cosmological Argument
• The Teleological Argument
• Hume's Objections to the Teleological Argument
• The Moral Argument

Unit 3: The Problem of Evil as an Argument Against God's Existence

• Overview
• Hume on the Problem of Evil
• Rowe on Evil and Friendly Atheism
• Leibniz on Evil and the best Possible Universe
• Hick on Evil and Soul-Making

Unit 4: What is the Relationship Between Faith and Reason?

• Introduction to the Epistemology of Religion
• St. Thomas on Reason and Revelation
• Blaise Pascal and "The Wager"
• William Clifford and Normative Epistemology
• William James on Pragmatic Belief
• David Hume on Belief in Miracles
• Paul Tillich on Belief in Miracles