Prayer: The Philosophy of Communication with the Divine

Is Faith Rational?

Is faith a vice of credulity, a virtue of trust, or something else? Explore the philosophical debate from Aquinas and Pascal through reformed epistemology and evidentialism.

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What Is Prayer?

Prayer is the act of addressing God, from petition to contemplation. Explore its varieties in the philosophical and theological tradition, and the philosophical questions it raises about grace, freedom, and divine action.

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What Is Religious Experience?

Religious experience is the felt encounter with the sacred, from conversion to mysticism. Explore William James's classic study and the philosophical debate over its evidential force.

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God: The Wisdom of the Divine

God wisdom is the philosophical contemplation of the divine as the ground of being and the mystery of existence itself — the human search for ultimate meaning that runs through every tradition, from Aquinas's five ways to the silence of the mystics.

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Reverence: The Wisdom of Awe

Reverence is the philosophical virtue of awe — the capacity to stand humbly before what surpasses understanding. From the Stoics to the mystics, this is the wisdom that opens the mind to the sacred and the ordinary alike.

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The Sacred: The Wisdom of Reverence

Sacred wisdom is the recognition of the holy — the mysterium tremendum, that which is set apart. From Rudolf Otto's numinous to William James's religious experience, this is the wisdom of attending to the dimension of existence that surpasses the ordinary.

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Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo (354-430) was a North African bishop and philosopher whose synthesis of Christian theology with Greek philosophy shaped Western thought for over a millennium.

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Thomas Aquinas

A comprehensive introduction to Thomas Aquinas, the thirteenth-century Dominican philosopher whose synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy with Christian theology shaped Western intellectual life for centuries.

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William James

A comprehensive introduction to William James, the American philosopher and psychologist who founded pragmatism, exploring his radical empiricism, theory of truth, will to believe, and philosophy of religion.

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Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician and philosopher whose Pensees explored faith, reason, and the human condition suspended between greatness and wretchedness.

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Søren Kierkegaard

Danish writer, theologian, and philosopher whose accounts of inwardness, choice, anxiety, and faith helped shape later existential thought.

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The City of God by Augustine of Hippo

An evidence-led guide to Augustine of Hippo's The City of God: the monumental meditation on the two cities, providence, evil, and the foundations of Christian philosophy in the twilight of the Roman Empire.

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Philosophy of Faith

An introduction to the philosophy of faith: the relationship between faith and reason, the nature of faith, reformed epistemology, evidentialism, and the ethics of belief, from Aquinas to Plantinga.

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Philosophy of God

An introduction to the philosophy of God: the existence of God, divine attributes, the nature of divine action, and the coherence of theism, from Aquinas and Anselm to Swinburne and Plantinga.

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Philosophy of Miracles

An introduction to the philosophy of miracles: the definition of miracle, Hume's argument against miracles, laws of nature and divine intervention, the probability of miracles, and the relationship between miracles and scientific explanation.

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Philosophy of Religious Experience

An introduction to the philosophy of religious experience: the nature of religious experience, the argument from religious experience, mysticism, the neurology of experience, and the epistemic value of religious perception, from William James to contemporary epistemology.

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Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy of religion is the philosophical examination of religious claims, concepts, and practices, including arguments for God's existence, the problem of evil, and the nature of faith.

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Religion, God & the Sacred: The Philosophy of Religion Learning Path

A structured learning path through the philosophy of religion: from the philosophy of God and the problem of evil to atheism, faith, religious experience, miracles, prayer, sin, and the sacred.

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Ethics & Moral Wisdom

A structured learning path through moral philosophy, from the great ethical theories of duty, utility, and virtue to the practical art of making ethical decisions in everyday life.

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