Beyond Faith and Rationality

Part 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Beyond Faith and Rationality (Benedikt Gocke).- Part 2. Analytic Philosophy of Religion.- Chapter 2. Why Believe that there is a God? (Richard Swinburne).- Chapter 3. The Failure of van Inwagen's Solution to the Problem of Evil (Benedikt Göcke).- Chapter 4. Saadia Gaon on the Problem of Evil (Eleonore Stump).- Chapter 5. Some Problems with Miracles (Agnaldo Cuoco Portugal).- Part 3. Logical Philosophy of Religion.- Chapter 6. An even more Leibnizian version of Gödel's ontological argument (Kordula Swietorzecka).- Chapter 7. A Tractarian Resolution to the Ontological Argument (Erik Thomsen).- Chapter 8. Actuality and Necessity in Anselm's Argument: a Two-dimensional Approach (Victor Gorbatov).- Chapter 9.Some Thoughts on the Logical Aspects of the Problem of Evil (Ricardo Silvestre).- Chapter 10. The Logic of Trinity and the Filioque question in Thomas Aquinas: a Formal Approach (Fábio Bertato).- Chapter 11. Defining God's Properties in Morse-Kelley Set Theory (Ward Blondé).- Part 4. Computational Philosophy and Religion.- Chapter 12. Talmudic Norms Approach to the Paradox of the Heap: A Position Paper (E. David).- Chapter 13. A Case Study on Computational Hermeneutics: E. J. Lowe's Modal Ontological Argument (David Fuenmayor).- Chapter 14. A Mechanically Assisted Examination of Begging the Question in Anselm's Ontological Argument (John Rushby).- Part 5. Paraconsistency and Religion.- Chapter 15. Is God Paraconsistent? (Newton da Costa).- Chapter 16. Contradictions and Rationality: An Analysis of two biblical Cases (Susana Gómez Gutiérrez).- Part 6. Logic, Language and Religion.- Chapter 17. Logic and Religion: The Essential Connection (Benjamin Murphy).- Chapter 18. From Logic in Islam to Islamic Logic (Musa Akrami).- Chapter 19. Thinking Negation in Early Hinduism and Classical Indian Philosophy (Purushottama Bilimoria).

Ricardo Sousa Silvestre holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Montreal. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Oxford (UK), Notre Dame (USA) and Québec (Canada). He is the author of several papers on Logic and Philosophy of Religion and guest-editor of a couple of special issues on the field of Logic and Religion, namely  the special issues on the Concept of God (2019) and Formal Approaches to the Ontological Argument (2018) of the Journal of Applied Logics (College Publications), the special issue on Logic and Philosophy of Religion (2017) of Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions (Springer) and the special issue on Logic and Religion (2017) of Logica Universalis (Springer). He is one of the creators and main organizers of the World Congress on Logic and Religion series. He is presently Associate Professor at Federal University of Campina Grande (Brazil).

Benedikt Paul Göcke is a Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and a Member of the Faculty of Theology at University of Oxford.  He is also a Member of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. Göcke is author of:  A Theory of the Absolute  (Macmillan, 2014),  Alles in Gott? (Friedrich Pustet, 2012) and editor of After Physicalism (Notre Dame, 2012). He has published articles in journals such as The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Zygon, Sophia, The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and Theologie und Philosophie, among others.

Jean-Yves Beziau has a Ph.D. in Mathematics (University of Paris 7) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (University of São Paulo, Brazil). He has done research in France, Brazil, Poland, California (UCLA, Stanford, UCSD) and Switzerland. He is presentlyprofessor of logic in Rio de Janeiro at the University of Brazil, and the President of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy. He is the

"This book represents an exciting reference for logical contemplation on religious beliefs, yet with a strong focus on Judeo- Christian traditions." (Hu nh Cao Nh t Quang, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 47 (4), December, 2021)