Abstract

Meant as a text in the Prentice-Hall "Foundations of Philosophy" series, the book is a breath-takingly rapid, comprehensive survey of the major arguments from the philosophical study of the Judaic-Christian religion. The author gives his criticisms and appreciations of these arguments with studied obviousness and frequent lack of sympathy. At times the author adumbrates a coherent religious position which he implies to be rather more worthy of respect, as when he speaks of a divine purpose of "soul-making" as a solution to the problem of evil, of "facts of faith" as opposed to their theological renderings, or of eschatology as solving the paradoxes of verification-falsification of religious utterances.--E. W.