selected by S. Smith

Ancient:

• Plato, Euthyphro; Laws, Book X
• Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book Lambda; Nicomachean Ethics, Book X
• Plotinus, Enneads

Medieval:

• Augustine, Confessions; On Free Will
• Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
• Anselm, Monologium; Proslogium
• Al-Ghazali, Deliverance from Error (in The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali)
• Ibn Rushd (Averroes), On the Harmony Between Religion and Philosophy
• Moses Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed
• Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, esp. Questions 1-13

17th century:

• Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, esp. III and V
• Blaise Pascal, Pensees
• Benedict Spinoza, Ethics

18th century:

• G. W. von Leibniz, Theodicy
• Joseph Butler, The Analogy of Religion
• Jonathan Edwards, Freedom of the Will
• David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
• Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, second part; Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone

19th century:

• G. W. F. von Hegel, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, paras. 553-557; Lectures on Philosophy of Religion
• Friedrich Schleiermacher, On Religion
• Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
• Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling; The Sickness Unto Death; Philosophical Fragments; Concluding Unscientific Postscript
• John Henry Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
• William James, Varieties of Religious Experience; The Will to Believe
• Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals

20th century:

• Max Scheler, Ressentiment; A Critique of Nietsche; On the Eternal in Man
• Gabriel Marcel, The Mystery of Being
• Martin Buber, I and Thou
• Franz Rosenzweig, The Star of Redemption
• G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; The Everlasting Man
• Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality
• Simone Weil, Waiting for God
• Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith
• Paul Ricoeur, The Symbolism of Evil
• Bernard Lonergan, Insight
• Charles Hartshorne, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes
• Sallie McFague, Metaphorical Theology

GOOD STARTERS:

• Plato, Euthyphro
• Al-Ghazali, Deliverance from Error
• William James, Varieties of Religious Experience
• Charles Hartshorne, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes