Summary And Conclusion

Abstract

Analytic philosophy of religion is a predominantly English-speaking enterprise and, hence, a predominantly Western enterprise. It is distinguished both by the particular topics, issues, and problems addressed and by the philosophical method used, and the main focus has been on the particular problems and issues generated by and of importance to theism. Analytic philosophy of religion has gone through several very distinctive phases of development, which are the result of the more fundamental phases that analytic philosophy itself has gone through as well as various developments in science. In this volume, I have identified the developments in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion and situated these developments in the broader philosophical context in which they have taken place. I have also described the various issues and problems generated by those developments and examined critically the positions taken by the major figures in the field.