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The God Debate: from the Ancient Arguments to the New Atheism

Recent and Select Books on the Existence of God Debate: From Pascal to Plantinga

Open Theism, by Alan R Rhoda (2024)

The Problem of God in David Hume (2024)

Why? the Purpose of the Universe (2023)

Science at the Doorstep to God: science and reason in support of God, the soul, and life after death (2023)

Kant on Proofs for God's Existence (2023)

Atheism and Agnosticism: exploring the issues, by P. Huff 2021

A New Theist Response to the New Atheists; (eds: Joshua L Rasmussen, Kevin Vallier, 2020)

Atheism: a Very Short Introduction, by Julian Baggini, 2021

The Four Horsemen : the conversation that sparked an atheist revolution (Daniel Dennett; Christopher Hitchens; Richard Dawkins; Sam Harris), 2019

Atheism in 5 Minutes (Teemu Taira, Editor, 2022)

The Analytic Theist, : an Alvin Plantinga reader, 1998

Where the Conflict Really Lies: science, religion, and naturalism, by Alvin Plantinga (2012)

God and the Burden of Proof: Plantinga, Swinburne, and the analytic defense of theism (1989)

Pensees, by Pascal

Blaise Pascal : apologist to skeptics (2008), Charles Sherrard MacKenzie

Pascal the Philosopher : an introduction (2013 EBOOK), by G. Hunter

The New Atheists: the twilight of reason and the war on religion, by T.Beattie (2007)

The Existence of God, by R. Swinburne (2004)

Chesterton, the New Atheism, and an Apologetics of Common Sense, by Marianne Kuipers-Sedee (2022)

Is Atheism Dead? by Eric Metaxas 2021

The Oxford handbook of atheism (2013 Ebook)

The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins (1986)

Godless: how an Evangelical preacher became one of America's leading atheists: Dan Barker; Richard Dawkins (Foreword by), 2008

Divine Name Verification : an essay on anti-Darwinism, intelligent design, and the computational nature of reality, by Noah Horwitz (2013 ebook)

Does God Exist?: the Craig-Flew debate, Stan W. Wallace (Editor) 2003

Select Articles and Websites on Atheism/Theism

100 full-text articles from ATLA/ASP databases on 'Atheism'

"Anselm, the Ontological Argument, Faith and Reason" from Breakpoint.org

"Anselm: Ontological Argument for God's Existence"--from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Peer-reviewed)

Atheism in the Bible and through Christian History: See the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online

For other issues/debates in Philosophical Theology, see this Bibliography

Who should I read on the question of atheism and the existence of God?

A Timeline of Scholars on 'Atheism/Theism' linked to Wikipedia or LibGuides:

Tertullian... Anselm... Maimonides; ... Aquinas... Pascal... Ockham... Descartes... Hume... Kant... Kierkegaard... Antony Flew;...Swinburne;... Plantinga;... Craig;...

Related topics to consider, with links to Wikipedia:

"Atheism"; "Agnosticism"; "Atheism during the Age of Enlightenment"; "Atheism in the African Diaspora"; "New Atheism"; "Pascal's Wager"; "open theism";

The "Four Horsemen of the New Atheism": Richard Dawkins; Christopher Hitchens; Daniel Dennett; Sam Harris (and formerly, Ayaan Hirsi Ali);

The Debate Continues--from Pascal to Plantinga

Does God Exist? William Lane Craig vs. Christopher Hitchens: The 2009 debate via YouTube (The debate verbatim and in summary form)

Richard Dawkins vs Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The God Debate (YouTube, 2024): Ayaan Hirsi Ali's conversion in 2023 from Atheism to Christianity

Other links to Ayaan Hirsi Ali conversion:

"The Life and Faith of Blaise Pascal", by John Stonestreet and Glenn Sunshine, in Colson Center for Christian Worldview, August 2024