 | Religion in the Making by Alfred Whitehead
Buy new: $22.50 / Used from: $15.00 Profound, prophetic, easy to read, vital, and short.
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 | Kant: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant
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 | The Law of Love and the Law of Violence by Leo Tolstoy
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 | Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion by Julian Young
Buy new: $25.71 / Used from: $17.98 An interesting book-by-book chronological exposition that spends too much time on Nietzsche's early works and not enough on The Gay Science or Zarathustra.
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 | Parisian Questions and Prologues by Eckhart Master
Buy used from: $14.99 Vastly underrated. Should be required reading for all students of medieval philosophy.
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| Theology of the New Testament: Complete in One Volume by Rudolf Bultmann
Buy used from: $4.08 Bultmann's central application of his life's project to demythologize Christianity.
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 | The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich
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 | G.W.F. Hegel: Theologian of the Spirit (Making of Modern Theology) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Buy used from: $3.49 Contains a new translation of Hegel's celebrated "Hinrichs Foreword" on the reconciliation of faith and reason.
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 | Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: One-Volume Edition - The Lectures of 1827 by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Buy used from: $23.99 A convenient approach to a notoriously difficult thinker, edited by one of the best scholars in the business.
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 | Aquinas's Shor Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas
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 | A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Armstrong, Karen) by Karen Armstrong
Buy used from: $1.53 This is the historical background textbook that I use when I teach the philosophy of religion.
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| Philosophy, Theology, and Hegel's Berlin Philosophy of Religion, 1821-1827 by Philip M. Merklinger
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $49.19 Quite likely to help you clear your way toward a better understanding of Hegel.
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 | Religious Experience by Wayne Proudfoot
Buy new: $21.55 / Used from: $4.00 The best work on the subject in the wake of William James, Martin Buber, and Rudolf Otto.
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 | God, Guilt, and Death (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) by Merold Westphal
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| James's Will-To-Believe Doctrine: A Heretical View by James C. S. Wernham
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 | The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays (Great Books in Philosophy) by William Kingdon Clifford
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.21 Defends the proposition that it is unethical to believe anything without evidence.
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 | The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.00 All philosophers of religion need a little anthropology. This is where to get it.
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| Philosophical Understanding and Religious Truth by Erich Frank
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 | Principles of the Philosophy of the Future by Ludwig Feuerbach
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| Faith, reason, and existence;: An introduction to contemporary philosophy of religion by John Alexander Hutchison
Buy used from: $4.93 Hard to find nowadays, but well worth the search.
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 | Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
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 | Modern Christian Thought: The Enlightment And the Nineteenth Century (Modern Christian Thought) by James C. Livingston
Buy new: $19.14 / Used from: $15.00 With the next book, a who's who of recent philosophers of religion and theologians.
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 | Modern Christian Thought: The Twentieth Century (Modern Christian Thought) by James C. Livingston
Buy new: $19.14 / Used from: $18.00 With the above book, a who's who of recent philosophers of religion and theologians.
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 | Bonaventura: The Minds Road to God by George Boas
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $4.99 If you don't know this book, then you don't know the philosophy of religion.
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 | The Consolation of Philosophy: Boethius by Richard H. Green
Buy new: $18.36 / Used from: $2.00 The ultimate attestation that philosophy does the job of religion better than religion does.
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