Readers of this anthology will have a strong sense of déjà vu. Not only has every article in it, save one, been previously published, but three of them (those by Geach, Schlesinger, and Hick) are just reprinted from the same editors’ earlier OUP anthology, Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Oxford, 1982). The book contains three new elements: a short (a page and a bit) preface, which lists the questions that the reprinted essays address, an index, and one short (just over four pages) new essay, by Cahn, on God’s foreknowledge.

The topics covered in the reprinted essays are the classic problems of philosophical theology: God’s goodness, God’s omnipotence, God’s impassibility, God’s eternity, and God’s omniscience. Also, there is coverage of issues apart from the divine nature: why God allows evil, why God hides his existence, whom God consigns to Hell, and whether all religions worship the same God.

The authors are the leading philosophers of religion of the past twenty-five years: Swinburne, Geach, Stump, Wolterstorff, etc.

The volume is a handy collection of some important articles, but almost all of them are easily available elsewhere, and those that own Cahn and Shatz’s previous volume may feel short-changed by this one, since it is 136 pages shorter.