The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives on Disability, Gender, Race, and Animals - Paperback

by Blake Hereth (Editor), Kevin Timpe (Editor)

Contemporary research in philosophy of religion is dominated by traditional problems such as the nature of evil, arguments against theism, issues of foreknowledge and freedom, the divine attributes, and religious pluralism. This volume instead focuses on unrepresented and underrepresented issues in the discipline. The essays address how issues like race, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, feminist and pantheist conceptions of the divine, and nonhuman animals connect to existing issues in philosophy of religion. By staking out new avenues for future research, this book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in analytic philosophy of religion and analytic philosophical theology.

Author Biography

Blake Hereth is a PhD Candidate in philosophy at the University of Washington. Ze has defended animal immortality in Heaven and Philosophy (2018), animal universalism in Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays on Heaven (2017), and afterlife justice for transgender persons in Hinder Them Not: Centering Marginalized Voices in Analytic Theology (forthcoming).

Kevin Timpe holds the William H. Jellema Chair in Christian Philosophy at Calvin College. His books include Disability and Inclusive Communities (2018), the Routledge Companion to Free Will (2017), and Free Will and Theism (2016). In addition to philosophy of religion, Timpe's scholarly work focuses on philosophy of disability, metaphysics, and virtue ethics.