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1 Richard G. Howe, Ph.D. General Theism Adams, Marilyn McCord and Robert Merrihew Adams, eds. The Problem of Evil. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990; Paperback reprint, New York: Oxford University Press, Adler, Mortimer. How to Think about God. New York: Bantam Books, Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religions and the Unity of Truth. New York: Collier Books, Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Contra Gentiles, Trans. Anton Pegis. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, Summa Theologica, Trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Westminster, Maryland: Christian Classics, Austin, Eric E. "Quentin Smith on the Logical Impossibility of a Divine Cause." Philosophia Christi 3 (2001): Baisnée, Jules A. "St. Thomas Aquinas' Proofs of the Existence of God Presented in Their Chronological Order." In Philosophical Studies in Honor of The Very Reverend Ignatius Smith, O. P., ed. John K. Ryan, Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, Bonansea, Bernardino M. God and Atheism: A Philosophical Approach to the Problem of God. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, Bonnette, Dennis. Aquinas' Proofs for God's Existence: St. Thomas Aquinas on: "The Per Accidens Necessarily Implies the Per Se." The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, Chamberlain, Paul. Can We Be Good Without God?: A Conversation About Truth, Morality, Culture & a Few Other Things that Matter. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, Clark, Kelly James, ed. Philosophers Who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of Eleven Leading Thinkers. Downers Grove, IL: Clarke, W. Norris. "A Curious Blindspot in the Anglo-American Tradition of Antitheistic Argument." The Monist 54 (April 1970): Craig, William Lane. Apologetics: An Introduction. Chicago: Moody, Craig, William Lane and Quentin Smith. Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology. New York: Clarendon Press, Davidson, Herbert A. Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, Davies, Brian. The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil. London: Continuum, 2006.

2 . Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Dembski, William A. The Design Inference : Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities (Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory). New York: Cambridge University Press, Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, Dembski, William A., ed. Mere Creation: Science, Faith and Intelligent Design. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, Dolezal, James E. All that Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism. Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage, Feser, Edward. Five Proofs of the Existence of God: Aristotle Plotinus Augustine Aquinas Leibniz. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism. South Bend: St. Augustine's Press, Flew, Antony. There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind. New York: Harper One, Geisler, Norman L. Christian Apologetics. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, Creating God in the Image of Man?: The New "Open" View of God Neotheism's Dangerous Drift. Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, False Gods Of Our Times: A Defense of the Christian Faith. Eugene, OR: Harvest House, Publishers, "The Missing Premise in the Cosmological Argument." Modern Schoolman 56 (1978): Geisler, Norman L. and Winfried Corduan. Philosophy of Religion, 2 nd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, Geisler, Norman L. and William D. Watkins. Worlds Apart: A Handbook on World Views, 2 nd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, Gilson, Etienne. God and Philosophy. New Haven: Yale University Press, Hackett, Stuart C. The Resurrection of Theism. Grand Rapids, Mi.: Baker Book House, The Reconstruction of the Christian Revelation Claim: A Philosophical and Critical Apologetic. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, Hankey, Wayne J. God in Himself: Aquinas' Doctrine of God as Expounded in the Summa Theologiae. Oxford: Oxford University Press,

3 . "The Place of the Proof for God's Existence in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas." Thomist 46 (July 1982): Hick, John. Arguments for the Existence of God. New York: The Seabury Press, Philosophy of Religion. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Hick, John, ed. The Existence of God: From Plato to A. J. Ayer on the Question "Does God Exist?" New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., Kenny, Anthony, ed. Aquinas: A Collection of Critical Essays. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, Klubertanz, George, and Holloway, Maurice R. Being and God. New York: Appelton-Century- Crofts, Knasas, John F. X. Knasas, John F. X. "Making Sense of the Tertia Via." New Scholasticism 54 (Autumn 1980): "Thomistic Existentialism and the Silence of the Quinque Viae." Modern Schoolman 63 (March 1986): Kovach, Francis J. "The Question of the Eternity of the World in St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas - A Critical Analysis." Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 5 (1974): Kretzman, Norman. The Metaphysics of Creation: Aquinas's Natural Theology in Summa Contra Gentiles II. Oxford: Clarendon Press, The Metaphysics of Theism: Aquinas's Natural Theology in Summa Contra Gentiles I. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Küng, Hans. Does God Exist?: An Answer for Today, trans. Edward Quinn. New York: Vintage Books, La Croix, Richard R. "Aquinas on the Self-Evidence of God's Existence." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 6 (September 1976): Lauer, Rosemary "The Notion of Efficient Causality in the Secunda Via." The Thomist 38 (1974): Maritain, Jacques. Approaches to God. New York: Harper and Brothers, Mascall, E. L. Existence and Analogy. n.c.: Longmans, Green, and Co. LTD., Reprint ed., Hamden, Conn.: Anchor Books, He Who Is. n.c.: By the Author, Reprint ed., n.c.: Longmans, Green, and Co. LTD., Reprint ed., Hamden, Conn.: Anchor Books, McCabe, Herbert. God and Evil in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. London: Continuum, McGrath, Alister and Joanna Collicutt McGrath. The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine. Downers Grove, IL:

4 Miethe, Terry L. "The Cosmological Argument: A Research Bibliography." The New Scholasticism 52 (Spring 1978) #2: Miethe, Terry and Antony Flew. Does God Exist?: A Believer and an Atheist Debate. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Moreland, J. P. Scaling the Secular City. Grand Rapids, Mi.: Baker Book House, Moreland, J. P., ed. The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, Moreland, J. P. and Kai Nielsen. Does God Exist?: The Great Debate. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, Reprinted as Does God Exist?: The Debate Between Theists and Atheists. Buffalo: Prometheus Press, Morey, Robert A. The New Atheism and the Erosion of Freedom. Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, Morris, Thomas V., ed. God and the Philosophers: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason. New York: Oxford University Press, Noebel, David A. Understanding the Times: The Story of the Biblical Christian, Marxist/Leninist and Secular Humanist Worldviews. Manitou Springs, CO: Summit Press, Nowacki, Mark R. "What Comes to Be Has a Cause of Its Coming to Be: A Thomistic Defense of the Principle of Sufficient Reason." Thomist 62 (1998): Owens, Joseph. "Aquinas and the Five Ways." Monist 58 (January 1974): St. Thomas Aquinas on the Existence of God: The Collected Papers of Joseph Owens. Edited by John R. Catan. Albany: State University of New York Press, Patterson, Robert Leet. The Conception of God in the Philosophy of Aquinas. London: George Allen and Unwin, Plantinga, Alvin C. God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1967; reprint paperback, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, God, Freedom, and Evil. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Pojman, Louis P. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Reichenbach, Bruce R. The Cosmological Argument: A Reassessment. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, Ross, Hugh. The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatist Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God. Rev. ed. Colorado Springs: Navpress,

5 Sproul, R. C. If There Is a God, Why Are There Atheists?: A Surprising Look at the Psychology of Atheism. Minneapolis: Dimension Books, Sproul, R. C., John Gerstner, and Arthur Lindsley. Classical Apologetics: A Rational Defense of the Christian Faith and a Critique of Presuppositional Apologetics. Grand Rapids: Academie Books, Stump, Eleonore, ed. Reasoned Faith: Essays in Philosophical Theololgy in Honor of Norman Kretzman. Ithica, Cornell University Press, Spitzer, Robert J. New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, Swinburne, Richard. The Coherence of Theism. New York: Clarendon Press, The Existence of God. New York: Clarendon Press, Is There a God? Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, Zacharias, Ravi. A Shattered Visage: The Real Face of Atheism. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, Van Steenberghen, Fernand. "The Problem of the Existence of God in Saint Thomas' Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle." Review of Metaphysics 27 (March 1974): Varghese, Roy Abraham, ed. The Intellectuals Speak Out About God: A Handbook for the Christian Student in a Secular Society. Chicago: Regnery Gateway, Inc., Zacharias, Ravi. A Shattered Visage: The Real Face of Atheism. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, The Kalam Cosmological Argument: Pro and Con Benardete, Jose A. Infinity: An Essay in Metaphysics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Black, Max. "Achilles and the Tortoise." Analysis 11 (March 1951): Bonansea, Bernardino M. "The Impossibility of Creation from Eternity According to St. Bonaventure." Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 48 (1974): Chihara, Charles S. "On the Possibility of Completing an Infinite Process." Philosophical Review 74 (1965): Conway, David A. "'It Would Have Happened Already': On One Argument for a First Cause." Analysis 44 (October 1984): "Possibility and Infinite Time: A Logical Paradox in St. Thomas' Third Way." International Philosophical Quarterly 14 (June 1974):

6 Craig, William Lane. "The Cosmological Argument and the Possibility of Infinite Temporal Regression." Archive fur Geschichte der Philosophie 59 (1977): The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibnitz. New York: Barnes and Noble, "Diskussionen: Kant's First Antinomy and the Beginning of the Universe." Zeitschrift fur Philosophische Forschung 33 (October 1979): The Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universe. San Bernadino, Ca.: Here's Life Publishers, "The Finitude of the Past." Aletheia 2 (1985): "God, Creation, and Mr. Davies." The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (June 1986): "God, Time, and Eternity." Religious Studies 14 (December 1978): "Julian Wolfe and Infinite Time." International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11 (Summer 1980): The Kalam Cosmological Argument. London: Macmillan Press, LTD, "The Kalam Cosmological Argument and the Hypothesis of a Quiescent Universe." Faith and Philosophy 8 (January 1991): "Philosophical and Scientific Pointers to Creation ex Nihilo." Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 32 (March 1980): "Professor Mackie and the Kalam Cosmological Argument." Religious Studies 20 (Spring 1984): "Wallace Matson and the Crude Cosmological Argument." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 57 (June 1979): "What Place, then, for a Creator?: Hawking on God and Creation." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 41 (1990): "Whitrow and Popper on the Impossibility of an Infinite Past." The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 30 (June 1979): Dauben, Joseph W. "George Cantor and Pope Leo XIII: Mathematics, Theology, and the Infinite." Journal of the History of Ideas 38 (March 1977): Day, Timothy Joseph. "Aquinas on Infinite Regresses." International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 22 (1987): "Infinite Regress Arguments." Philosophical Papers 16 (1987): Dejnozka, Jan. "Zeno's Paradoxes and the Cosmological Argument." Philosophy of Religion 25 (1989):

7 Dretske, Fred I. "Counting to Infinity." Analysis 25 (1965): Eells, Ellery. "Quentin Smith on Infinity and the Past." Philosophy of Science 55 (1988): Ferrari, Donald. "A Reply to 'The Finiteness of the Past'." Aletheia 1 (1977): Fogelin, Robert. "Hume and Berkeley on the Proofs of Infinite Divisibility." The Philosophical Review 97 (January 1988): Gale, Richard M. "Omniscience-Immutability Arguments." American Philosophical Quarterly 23 (October 1986): Goetz, Stewart C. "Craig's Kalam Cosmological Argument." Faith and Philosophy 6 (January 1989): Huby, Pamela M. "Kant or Cantor? That the Universe, If Real, Must Be Finite in both Space and Time." Philosophy 46 (April 1971): Kneale, W. "Time and Eternity in Theology." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1961): Kovach, Francis J. "The Question of the Eternity of the World in St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas - A Critical Analysis." Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 5 (1974): Lawhead, William F. "The Symmetry of the Past and the Future in the Kalam Cosmological Argument." University of Mississippi, Mann, William E. "Simplicity and Immutability in God." International Philosophical Quarterly 23 (1983): Meyer, Robert K. "God Exists!" Nous 21 (1987): Oberman, Julian; Ginzberg, Louis; and Wolfson, Harry Austryn, gen. eds. Yale Judaica Series. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948), vol. 1: Saadia Gaon The Book of Beliefs and Opinions. Translated by Samuel Rosenblatt. Popper, Karl. "On the Possibility of an Infinite Past: A Reply to Whitrow." The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 29 (March 1978): Rudavsky, T. M. "Creation, Time and Infinity in Gersonides." Journal of the History of Philosophy. 26 (January 1988): Sadowsky, James A. "The Cosmological Argument and Endless Regress." International Philosophical Quarterly 20 (December 1980): Seaton, Robert. "Zeno's Paradoxes, Iteration, and Infinity." Nature and System 6 (1984): Shields, George W. "Is the Past Infinite? On Craig's Kalam Argument." Process Studies 14 (Spring 1984): Simons, John. "Eternity, Omniscience, and Temporal Passage: A Defence of Classical Theism." Review of Metaphysics 42 (March 1989):

8 Small, Robin. "Tristram Shandy's Last Page." The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (June 1986): Smith, Quentin. "Infinity and the Past." Philosophy of Science 54 (March 1987): "Kant and the Beginning of the World." The New Scholasticism 59 (1985): "The Mind-Independence of Temporal Becoming." Philosophical Studies 47 (1985): "On the Beginning of Time." Nous 19 (December 1985): Sorabji, Richard. Time, Creation, and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, Stump, Eleonore and Kretzmann, Norman. "Eternity." The Journal of Philosophy 78 (August 1981): Thompson, J. F. "Tasks and Super-Tasks." Analysis 11 ( ): Weingard, Robert. "General Relativity and the Length of the Past." The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 30 (June 1979): Wenisch, Fritz. "The Finiteness of the Past - A Dialogue." Aletheia 1 (1977): White, David A. "Part and Whole in Aristotle's Concept of Infinity." The Thomist 49 (April 1985): Whitrow, G. J. "On the Impossibility of an Infinite Past." The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 29 (1978): Wolfe, Julian. "Infinite Regress and the Cosmological Argument." International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 2 (1971): "On the Impossibility of an Infinite Past: A Reply to Craig." International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 18 (1985): 91. Book Reviews of William Lane Craig's The Kalam Cosmological Argument Butterworth, Charles, review of The Kalam Cosmological Argument, by William Lane Craig, in Review of Metaphysics 35 (December 1981): Reichenbach, Bruce, review of The Kalam Cosmological Argument, by William Lane Craig, in Thomist 45 (April 1981): Sadowsky, James A., review of The Kalam Cosmological Argument, by William Lane Craig, in International Philosophical Quarterly 21 (June 1981): Wainwright, William J., review of The Kalam Cosmological Argument, by William Lane Craig, in Nous 16 (May 1982):

9 Whitrow, G. J., review of The Kalam Cosmological Argument, by William Lane Craig, in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 31 (December 1980): Theses And Dissertations Watkins, William D., "The Dipolar God of Charles Hartshorne: A Classical Theist's Examination." Master's Thesis, Dallas Theological Seminary, Agnosticism and Atheism Angeles, Peter A., ed. Critiques of God: Making the Case Against Belief in God. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, Ayer, A. J. Language, Truth and Logic. New York: Dover Publications, Barker, Dan. Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist. Madision, WI: Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc., Barrow, John D. and Frank J. Tipler. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. New York: Oxford University Press, Berlinski, David. The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions. New York: Crown Forum, Blackford, Russell and Udo Schüklenk. Fifty Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists. Chichester, West Sussex: Blackwell, Boghossian, Peter. A Manual for Creating Atheists. Durham: Pitchstone, Craig, William Lane and Quentin Smith. Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology. New York: Clarendon Press, Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, The God Delusion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Dennett, Daniel C. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. New York: Penguin Books, Drange, Theodore M. Nonbelief and Evil: Two Arguments for the Nonexistence of God. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, Flew, Antony. God & Philosophy. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966; revised as God: A Critical Inquiry. London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd. of London, England, Reprint, 2 nd ed. LaSalle, IL: Open Court Publishing, Harris, Sam. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. New York: W. W. Norton, Letter to a Christian Nation. New York: Vintage Books,

10 Hitchens, Christopher. God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. New York: Twelve, Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Edited by L. A. Selby-Bigge, 2 nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Edited by Nelson Pike. Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill Company, Inc., Jastrow, Robert. God and the Astronomers. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., Johnson, B. C. The Atheist Debater's Handbook. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, Kolenda, Konstantin. Religion Without God. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, Krueger, Douglas E. What is Atheism? A Short Introduction. Prometheus Books, Kurtz, Paul, ed. Humanist Manifestos I and II. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, Mackie, J. L. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. n.c.: Pelican Books, Reprint, New York: Penguin Books, The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and Against the Existence of God. New York: Oxford University Press, Martin, Michael. Atheism: A Philosophical Justification. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, The Case Against Christianity. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, Martin, Michael and Ricki Monnier. The Impossibility of God. Amherst: Prometheus, Martin, Michael and Ricki Monnier. The Improbability of God. Amherst: Prometheus, Mills, David. Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism. Berkeley: Ulysses Press, Nielsen, Kai. Ethics Without God. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, "Talk of God and the Doctrine of Analogy." The Thomist 40 (1976): Parsons, Keith. God and the Burden of Proff: Plantinga, Swinburne, and the Analytic Defense of Theism. Buffalo: Prometheus, Ruse, Michael. Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Russell, Bertrand. Why I Am not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects. New York: Simon and Schuster, Smith, George H. Atheism: The Case Against God. Buffalo: Prometheus Books,

11 Smith, Quentin. "Causation and the Logical Impossibility of a Divine Cause." Philosophical Topics 21, (Spring 1996): "The Reason the Universe Exists Is Because It Caused Itself to Exist." Philosophy 74 (1999): Sobel, Jordan Howard. Logic and Theism: Arguments for and against Beliefs in God. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Stenger, Victor J. God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows that God Does Not Exist. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, Wilson, Edward O. On Human Nature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,

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