Postgraduate Reading List

MA Philosophy and Religion

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION  and  CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT

Felicity McCutcheon  Religion within the Limits of Language (Ashgate 2001)

*Michael Peterson Reason and Religious Belief  (Oxford University Press, 1991)

*Peter Vardy The Thinkers Guide to Evil and The Thinkers Guide to God  (John Hunt Publishing, 2003 and 2004)

Bernard Lonergan Method in Theology (Darton Longman & Todd, 1979)

ETHICS PATHWAY

Robin Gill (ed.) Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

*Bernard Hoose Received Wisdom? Re-assessing the role of Tradition in Christian Ethics  (Chapman?Cassell,1994)

D. Bonevac Today’s Moral Issues: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives (McGraw-Hill, 2005)

SELECTED THEMES IN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY

Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins A Short History of Philosophy (Oxford, 1996)

*Frederick Copleston The History of Philosophy (London; burns & Oates, 1946-1974)

THE FRANCISCAN SPIRITUAL TRADITION

Zachary Hayes Bonaventure: Mystical Writings (New York: Crossroads, 1999)

*Jacques Le Goff, St Francis of Assisi (London: Routledge 2004)

UNITY AND DIVERSITY IN CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC THOUGHT
Fazlur Rahman, Revival and reform in Islam: a study of Islamic fundamentalism, Oneworld, 2000,

Fazlur Rahman, Islam and Modernity: transformation of an intellectual tradition, University Of Chicago Press, 1984.

Muhammad Khalid Masud, Armando Salvatore, and Martin van Bruinessen (eds), Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates, Edinburgh University Press,2009.

*Muhammad Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, Dodo Press, London, 2009

* Recommended for those without much background in this particular area.