An international team of over 100 leading scholars has been brought together to provide authoritative exposition of how historys most important philosophical thinkers from antiquity to the present day- have sought to analyse the concepts and tenets central to Western religious belief, especially Christianity. Volume 5 comprises an introduction, presenting an overview of Twentieth-Century philosophy of religion, and a series of essays on Twentieth-Century philosophers, including William James, Max Scheler, John Hick, Richard Swinburne, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Emmanuel Heidigger, John Dewey and Karl Jaspers. Each essay opens with a brief biography, outlines and analyses the philosophers contribution to thinking on religion, and concludes |