Women Philosophers of Religion

Then she says, "you don't read women authors, do you?"
Least that's what I think I hear her say,
"Well", I say, "how would you know and what would it matter anyway?"

"Well", she says, "you just don't seem like you do!"
I said, "you're way wrong."
She says, "which ones have you read then?" I say, "I read Erica Jong!"

-- Bob Dylan, "Highlands"

Some of these works are available by clicking on the links below. The same files are available under "Course Resources" on the MyCourses site for this course, Rel 111. They all would make interesting paper topics.

Marilyn McCord Adams, "Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supplementary volume 63 (1989), pp. 297-310.

Marilyn McCord Adams, "The Problem of Hell: A Problem of Evil for Christians," in Eleonore Stump (ed.) Reasoned Faith: Essays in Philosophical Theology in Honor of Norman Kretzmann (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 301-327.

Marilyn McCord Adams, "Redemptive Suffering: A Christian Solution to the Problem of Evil," in Robert Audi and William Wainwright (eds.) Rationality., Religious Belief, and Moral Commitment (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1986), pp. 248-67.

Sarah Coakley, "Feminism," in Philip L. Quinn and Charles Taliaferro (eds.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1997), pp. 601-606.

Nancy Frankenberry, Religion and Radical Empiricism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987).

Laura Garcia, "Divine Freedom and Creation," Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1992): 191-213.

Laura Garcia, "Timelessness, Omniscience and Tenses," Journal of Philosophical Research 18 (1993): 65-82.

Laura Garcia, "St. John of the Cross on the Necessity of Divine Hiddenness," in Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul Moser (eds.) Divine Hiddenness (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 83-97.

Frances Howard-Snyder, "Christianity and Ethics," in Michael Murray (ed.) Reason for the Hope Within (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999).

Nancey Murphy, "Theology and Scientific Methodology," in Murray Rae, Hilary Regan, and John Stenhouse (eds.), Science and Theology: Questions at the Interface (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1994).

Tamar Rudavsky, "Divine Omniscience, Contingency, and Prophecy in Gersonides," in T. M. Rudavsky (ed.) Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence in Medieval Philosophy (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985), pp. 161-81.

Janet Soskice, Metaphor and Religious Language (Oxford: Oxford University Presss, 1984).

Eleonore Stump, "Aquinas on the Suffering of Job," in Eleonore Stump (ed.) Reasoned Faith: Essays in Philosophical Theology in Honor of Norman Kretzmann (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 238-357.

Eleonore Stump, "God's Obligations," Philosophical Perspectives 6 (1992): 475-491.

Eleonore Stump, "Petitionary Prayer," American Philosophical Quarterly 16 (1979): 81-91.

Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, "The Idea of God in Feminist Philosophy," Hypatia 9 (1994): 57-68.

Linda Zagzebski, The Dilemma of Foreknowledge and Free Will (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).

Linda Zagzebski, "Religious Knowledge and the Virtues of the Mind," in Linda Zagzebski (ed.) Rational Faith: Catholic Responses to Reformed Epistemology (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993), pp. 199-225.

Linda Zagzebski, "Sleeping Beauty and the Afterlife," in Andrew Chignell and Andrew Dole (eds.) God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 59-76.