Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• understand the meaning of the words ‘God’ and ‘religion’

• understand what the main questions are in philosophy of religion

• have a better sense of the differences between philosophical questions or arguments and other kinds of questions or arguments

• think about the relation between belief and evidence, faith and proof

• have a sense of the variety of arguments for or against God’s existence, and of how to categorise this variety.