Reason and the question of God

"Neither a single presentation of the author's own philosophy, nor a simple compendium of all of the many varieties of the philosophy of religion, this volume instead examines: 1) a number of central questions that in various historical periods have guided philosophical investigation of the meaning of religious phenomena; 2) basic approaches for answering such questions that have been proposed over the centuries and that still merit consideration today; 3) methods that lead from such starting points toward the philosophical understanding that is sought. In this way the author provides an overview of the variety of possible ways in which the philosophy of religion has been conceived and practiced in the past and can still be today. Book jacket."--Jacket.