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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.
First year
PHIL107 Philosophy of World Religions
Second year
PHIL208 God, Religion and Evil
Third year
PHIL323 Philosophy of Religion
PHIL510 Introducing Philosophy for Theology
PHIL620 God, the Universe and Everything
PHIL621 The Problem of Evil
| 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 |
| Associate 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 |
| Associate Professor Richard Colledge | Theodicy; Divine absence |
| Associate 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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