"This book discusses and exemplifies philosophy of religion or philosophical reflection on central themes of religion. Philosophical reflection (which is not much different from just thinking hard) on these themes has a long history: it dates back at least as far as the fifth century B.C. when some of the Greeks thought long and hard about the religion they had received from their ancestors. In the Christian era, such philosophical reflection begins in the first or second century with the early Church Fathers, or 'Patristics' as they are often called; it has continued ever since....

"I shall concentrate my comments upon just two of the traditional arguments: the ontological argument as an example of natural theology, and the problem of evil as the most important representative of natural atheology."