Part I: Foundations and Methodology

A. Nature and Scope of Philosophy of Religion

  1. Philosophy of Religion (SEP) — Field definition and scope
  2. Philosophy of religion (WP) — Overview and history
  3. Natural theology (SEP) — Rational inquiry into God
  4. Natural theology (WP) — Historical development
  5. Philosophical theology (WP) — Systematic approach
  6. Analytic Philosophy of Religion (SEP) — Contemporary methodology

B. Metaphysical and Epistemological Preliminaries

  1. Metaphysics (SEP) — Foundational concepts
  2. Epistemology (SEP) — Theory of knowledge
  3. A Priori Justification and Knowledge (SEP) — Non-empirical warrant
  4. Rationalism vs. Empiricism (SEP) — Methodological divide
  5. Metaphysical necessity (WP) — Modal categories
  6. Possible world (SEP) — Modal metaphysics

C. Philosophy and Religion

  1. Relationship between religion and science (WP) — Historical overview
  2. Faith and Rationality (SEP) — Compatibility questions
  3. Theology and Falsification (WP) — Flew’s challenge
  4. Fideism (SEP) — Faith-based epistemology
  5. Reformed epistemology (WP) — Plantinga’s approach

Part II: Concept of God and Divine Attributes

A. Theism and Alternative Conceptions

  1. The Concept of God (SEP) — Philosophical analysis
  2. Classical theism (WP) — Traditional conception
  3. Theism (SEP) — Comprehensive treatment
  4. Panentheism (SEP) — God-in-world view
  5. Pantheism (SEP) — God-as-world view
  6. Deism (WP) — Non-interventionist God
  7. Process theism (WP) — Whiteheadian conception

B. Divine Omnipotence

  1. Omnipotence (SEP) — All-powerfulness
  2. Omnipotence paradox (WP) — Logical puzzles
  3. Divine simplicity (SEP) — God’s non-composite nature
  4. Immutability (SEP) — Unchangeability

C. Divine Omniscience

  1. Omniscience (SEP) — All-knowingness
  2. Problem of future contingents (WP) — Foreknowledge challenges
  3. Middle knowledge (WP) — Molinist solution
  4. Open theism (WP) — Limited divine knowledge

D. Divine Goodness

  1. Omnibenevolence (WP) — All-goodness
  2. Euthyphro dilemma (WP) — Divine command theory problem
  3. Divine command theory (SEP) — Moral grounding in God
  4. Natural law theory (SEP) — Alternative moral framework

E. Other Divine Attributes

  1. Eternity (SEP) — Timelessness vs. everlastingness
  2. Being and Existence (SEP) — Ontological status
  3. Divine freedom (SEP) — God’s liberty
  4. Impassibility (WP) — Divine impassivity
  5. Incorporeality (WP) — Non-physicality
  6. Infinity (SEP) — Divine infinitude

F. Trinity and Incarnation

  1. Trinity (SEP) — Trinitarian theology
  2. Trinity (WP) — Historical development
  3. Social trinitarianism (WP) — Three-person view
  4. Incarnation (WP) — God becoming human
  5. Hypostatic union (WP) — Two-natures Christology

Part III: Arguments for God’s Existence

A. Ontological Arguments

  1. Ontological Arguments (SEP) — Comprehensive overview
  2. Ontological argument (WP) — Historical survey
  3. Anselm of Canterbury (SEP) — Original formulation
  4. Gödel’s ontological proof (WP) — Modal version
  5. Alvin Plantinga (SEP) — Contemporary modal version

B. Cosmological Arguments

  1. Cosmological Argument (SEP) — Family of arguments
  2. Cosmological argument (WP) — Types and history
  3. Kalām cosmological argument (WP) — Temporal version
  4. Contingency argument (WP) — Leibnizian version
  5. Five Ways (Aquinas) (WP) — Thomistic proofs
  6. Unmoved mover (WP) — Aristotelian foundation
  7. Principle of sufficient reason (SEP) — PSR foundation

C. Teleological Arguments

  1. Teleological Arguments for God’s Existence (SEP) — Design arguments
  2. Teleological argument (WP) — Overview
  3. Fine-tuned universe (WP) — Contemporary version
  4. Anthropic principle (WP) — Observational selection
  5. Intelligent design (WP) — Specified complexity
  6. Irreducible complexity (WP) — Biological design argument

D. Moral Arguments

  1. Moral Arguments for the Existence of God (SEP) — Ethics-based proofs
  2. Argument from morality (WP) — Moral realism foundation
  3. Moral realism (SEP) — Objective moral facts
  4. Metaethics (SEP) — Nature of morality

E. Arguments from Religious Experience

  1. Religious Experience (SEP) — Phenomenology and epistemology
  2. Religious experience (WP) — Types and examples
  3. Mysticism (SEP) — Mystical consciousness
  4. Numinous (WP) — Otto’s concept
  5. Perennialism (WP) — Common mystical core