Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Volume 7

Jonathan L. Kvanvig is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, having held positions previously at the University of Missouri, Texas A&M University, and the University of Notre Dame. His research areas include metaphysics and epistemology as well as the philosophy of religion, having published to date six books and one hundred articles.

• Editor's Introduction ; 1. Evil and Evidence ; 2. Is Petitionary Prayer Superfluous? ; 3. Where Skeptical Theism Fails, Skeptical Atheism Prevails ; 4. The Right, the Good, and the Threat of Despair: (Kantian) Ethics and the Need for Hope in God ; 5. A Problem with Theistic Hope ; 6. Religious Skepticism and Higher-Order Evidence ; 7. Temporary Intrinsics and Christological Predication ; 8. Can God Repent? ; 9. Divine Creative Freedom ; 10. The Permissibility of the Atonement as Penal Substitution ; Index