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Throughout history, religion has played a major role in the way many people around the world have made sense of their lives. Philosophy of religion seeks to understand the commonalities and differences among different religious practices, the role God plays and how religion shapes our understanding of suffering and evil.

Consider the connection between rationality and faith, understand the nature of religious language and religious experience, and learn to pose a range of other questions and subjects in philosophical theology.

These questions include conceptions of divinity and the God-world relationship – either from within a religious tradition or from beyond one, rational arguments concerning God’s existence and nature, issues such as the problem of evil, and ideas concerning life after death.

Available units

Undergraduate

First year
PHIL107 Philosophy of World Religions

Second year
PHIL208 God, Religion and Evil

Third year
PHIL323 Philosophy of Religion

Postgraduate

PHIL510 Introducing Philosophy for Theology
PHIL620 God, the Universe and Everything
PHIL621 The Problem of Evil

Philosophy of religion staff

Professor Claude Romano Augustine
Professor Robyn Horner Marion; Derrida; Theological methodology; gift; revelation
David Newheiser Derrida; atheism; hope
Associate Professor Andrew Poe Debates in Postmodern Theology, Derrida, Nancy, Enthusiasm
Professor Richard Colledge Medieval apophatic theology; models of Divinity; panentheism

Dr Nevin Climenhaga Skeptical theism; Bayesian arguments from evil; Molinism; God and possible worlds
Dr Nick Trakakis Epistemology of religious beliefs; metaphysics of idealism

Dr Nick Trakakis Theodicy and anti-theodicy; evidential argument from evil
Professor Richard Colledge Theodicy; Divine absence

Professor Richard Colledge Aquinas; Wittgenstein; Ian Ramsay

David Newheiser Negative political theology; secularisation of hope
Dr Alda Balthrop Lewis Relation of religion and politics to theological histories of gender, race, nature and nation

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