Browse Hierarchy PHIL4007: God, Religion and Philosophy

This module introduces the student to the ideas and methodology that dominate Anglo-American Philosophy of Religion. There has been a tendency within this approach to the discipline to equate `religion' with the concept of God. Thus the first half of the module offers an account of the 'God of theism', focusing upon the attempts to establish the existence of God, and the characteristics attributed to that God. Such an account of the focus of religion and the meaning of 'God' has not been without its critics, and the second part of the module offers alternative accounts of religion and 'God'.