This is the guide straight from the OCR syllabus.

I have looked for online links for each part. (I haven't finished yet!)

(a) Traditional arguments for the existence of God:

· the ontological argument  (Swinburne's summary and a basic summary and another)

Anselm

Descartes

Gaunilo (against)

Kant (against) and discussion

modern restatements

other criticisms made of the arguments,

Hume

Malcolm

· the cosmological argument (and a basic summary)

Aquinas

Copleston,

Hume (against)

Russell (against)

other versions of this argument

The Anthropic Principle

other criticisms

Dawkins. and others

The implications for the cosmological argument of scientific theories about the origins of the universe;

· the teleological (design) argument (and a basic summary)

Aquinas

Paley and this

Hume (against)

Mill (against) and this

Darwinism (against)

other versions of teleological arguments modern versions

other criticisms

Tennant

Dawkins,

The challenges posed by modern science

· the moral argument

Kant

Freud (against)

other versions of moral arguments,

criticisms of them;

· arguments from religious experience

William James,

Freud (against)

Marx (against)

other arguments for the validity of religious experience,

Swinburne

criticisms of these.

 

(b) Challenges to religious belief: (a basic summary)

· the problem of evil: and here

Augustine

Irenaeus

Modern understandings of the problem of evil,

other suggested theodicies,

John Hick;

· the challenges of psychology and sociology to religious belief,

Freud

Jung

Marx

Weber

Durkheim

 

other

Alvin Plantinga

Copleston vs Russell