Fifty Years of Philosophy of Religion: A Select Bibliography (1955-2005) sanders-los_CS2.indd i 16-4-2007 10:20:04 sanders-los_CS2.indd ii 16-4-2007 10:20:04 Fifty Years of Philosophy of Religion: A Select Bibliography (1955-2005) By Andy F. Sanders Kristof de Ridder LEIDEN • BOSTON 2007 sanders-los_CS2.indd iii 16-4-2007 10:20:04 This book is printed on acid-free paper. ISBN 978 90 04 14823 9 © Copyright 2007 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. 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Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands sanders-los_CS2.indd iv 16-4-2007 10:20:04 CONTENTS Acknowledgements ...................................................................... vii Introduction ................................................................................ ix List of Journal Abbreviations .................................................... xv Part One Surveys and Introductions ........................................................ 3 Part Two Religious Language .................................................................... 20 Part Three Religious Experience .................................................................. 69 3.1 General .......................................................................... 69 3.2 Mystical .......................................................................... 88 Part Four Religious Epistemology .............................................................. 99 Part Five Theism ........................................................................................ 156 5.1 General .......................................................................... 156 5.2 The Concept of God .................................................... 196 5.3 The Existence of God .................................................. 254 v contents 5.4 God and Evil ................................................................ 338 5.5 Atheism .......................................................................... 392 Part Six Hermeneutical and Phenomenological Philosophy of Religion ... 409 Part Seven Religion and Science .................................................................. 432 7.1 General and Historical .................................................. 432 7.2 Religious Issues .............................................................. 468 7.3 Modern Physics, Cosmology and Biology .................. 496 Part Eight Religion and Aesthetics .............................................................. 518 Part Nine Religion and Morality ................................................................ 525 Part Ten Pluralism ...................................................................................... 553 Part Eleven Feminist Philosophy of Religion ................................................ 573 Index of Names .......................................................................... 579 vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The present bibliography lists nearly 8000 books and articles in the philosophy of religion which have appeared between 1955 and 2005. I acknowledge with gratitude the interest and initiative of Mr. Jan- Peter Wissink, Humanities Director of Royal Brill Academic Publishers and the subsequent support of Mrs. Louise Schouten, Editor, in par- ticular her up-building remarks at times when proof-reading threat- ened to overwhelm us. I would like to thank Mrs. Frouke Veenstra-Vis, librarian of the Faculty Library, and Dr. Jacob van Sluis of the Groningen University Library for their advice. I am particularly grateful to my students, Stijn ten Hoeve, Henk van Putten, Dokie de Bont and Renée Peters for their assistance in assembling, con- verting, standardizing and checking the data. I also would like to thank Dr. Richard H. Lineback, Founder of the Philosopher’s Information Center and General Editor of the Philosopher’s Index, and Dr. Dennis A. Norlin, Executive Director of the American Theological Library Association, for kindly giving permission to use their databases for the purpose of composing this bibliography. My co-author, Kristof de Ridder, has been responsible for retriev- ing the bibliographical data and their initial conversion to full text during his practical training at Brill Publishers. I am very grateful to him for his staunch support throughout the long process of com- piling and classifying the thousands of entries and for his invaluable help in the three proof-readings that have been necessary for com- pleting the manuscript. A.F.S. Groningen, December 2006 vii INTRODUCTION Andy F. Sanders University of Groningen In the mid-1970s, my teacher Huib Hubbeling, professor of the phi- losophy of religion, launched a bibliographical project which was meant to give advanced students the opportunity to get acquainted with the preparatory stages of inquiry. As a result, a systematic, selected bibliography of works in the field of the logic, epistemology and analysis of religious language appeared in 1974.1 Listing nearly 920 titles of books and articles from 72 journals, its terminus a quo was 1955, the year in which the influential collection New Essays in Philosophical Theology was published for the first time.2 A sequel with a broader category system, covering the years from 1975 until 1986 and listing almost 2300 entries, appeared in 1988.3 The present vol- ume not only includes most of the material contained in these ear- lier bibliographies but has been updated for the period 1987–2005 with nearly 4800 additional entries. While the compilation of the 1974 bibliography had been largely a matter of rummaging in the repositories of libraries, of (re)typing, glueing and tipp-exing, its 1988 sequel was produced largely by elec- tronic means, such as Dbase III, the University’s Cyber computer and the international electronic collections The Philosopher’s Index and Religion Index One. Since the mid-1980s many new bibliographical resources have become available, such as, for example, ATLA (produced by the American Theological Library Association), Francis (produced since 1984 by the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), IBZ, an international bibliography of periodical literature in the humanities, arts and social sciences (produced since 1983 by K.G. Sauer Verlag, Munich, part 1 IJ.K. Galama & A.F. Sanders, Logic, Epistemology, and Analysis of Religious Language, intr. by H.G. Hubbeling, Groningen: 1974. 2 Eds. A. Flew and A. MacIntyre, London: SCM Pr. 3 F. Blaakmeer, P.J. Huiser, N. van der Plas, Philosophy of Religion. A Select Bibliography (1974–1986), Groningen: University of Groningen Pr, 1988. ix introduction of the Thomson Corporation) and JSTOR, the major online archive of academic journals. With only limited resources available, we decided to use the data- bases of Philosopher’s Index (PI) and ATLA as our primary sources for bringing the present bibliography up to date for the period after 1986. These databases have been searched by means of hundreds of key-words delineating the eleven categories by which all the mate- rial should subsequently be systematized. As expected, the searches yielded not only a host of ‘double’ entries but also brought to light that quite different formats were in use (punctuation, spelling, abbre- viations and the like). Hence, XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) had to be employed in order to ensure that the format of the entries in print would be standardized. Not all problems could be solved in this way, however. The occurrence of multiple entries, the use of standard abbreviations of journal titles and the like, had to be solved during the proof-readings. The category system as a whole covers a wide variety of topics— from issues in modal logic to radical hermeneutics and transcen- dental metaphysics, from Plato to Derrida, from creation to eschatology, from traditional theism to negative theology and from religious lan- guage to modern physics, and almost anything in between. For the purpose of this volume, ‘philosophy of religion’ has been taken to include both the philosophical study of religion (as a branch of phi- losophy proper) and philosophical theology (philosophy from within a particular religion as a branch of theology). Depending on one’s philosophical orientation, say, ‘analytical’, ‘hermeneutical’, ‘phenomenol- ogical’, ‘existential’, ‘contemplative’ etc., a plethora of approaches may be discerned. Rather than following any one approach in par- ticular, however, the category system of the present volume focuses on problematic issues in specific fields of enquiry, such as ‘religious language’, ‘religious experience’, ‘religious epistemology’, ‘theism’, ‘science and religion’, and the like. The eleven main categories accord- ing to which the present volume is subdivided in as many Parts can briefly be described as follows. Part I lists work of a general, historical and/or introductory kind, such as general introductions in the field,