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Papers

(The TQCC of Religious Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
RES volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	17
Divine Contradiction: replies to critics	16
On astrotheology as natural theology	16
AI-mediated mystical experiences	14
Private evidence for atheism	12
Compositionalism, Nestorianism, and the principle of no co-member parts	8
Self-annihilation in Marguerite Porete	7
Author's Note for Symposium on A Hidden Wisdom	6
Hans Van Eyghen, The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (London: Routledge, 2023). Pp. 168. £96.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032249988.	5
Non-belief as self-deception?	5
‘Block’ing evil’s defeat	5
Even more happiness in hell	5
An existentialist response to the problem of evil a la Jorge Portilla	4
The restaurant at the beginning of the universe: Natural scientists on ultimate reality, science, and religion	4
RES volume 60 issue S1 Cover and Front matter	4
Murphy's Anselmian theism and the problem of evil	4
Sceptical theism, divine commands, and love	3
RES volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
RES volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
The privation theory of evil and the evil-God challenge	3
Evil and responsibility in the Quran	3
How reincarnations can resolve moral issues for non-sufferer-focused theodicies	3
The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer	3
How to believe in immortality	3
Salih Sayilgan. God, Evil, and Suffering in Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Pp. xvii + 224 (Hbk). ISBN 9781009377317.	2

Artificial intelligence and the alienness of God	2
‘Only God, my dear’: being loved for oneself and creation from nothing	2
Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity	2
Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erick Baldwin Classical Theism and Buddhism: Connecting Metaphysical and Ethical Systems (London: Bloomsbury, 2022). Pp. x + 161. £85.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 9781350189133.	2
An Integral Advaitic theodicy of spiritual evolution:karma, rebirth, universal salvation, and mystical panentheism	2
The problem of unconceived alternatives in science and religion	2
The opposition of omnibenevolence towards evil	2
Mysticism and scholasticism	2
RES volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	2
Selfhood, persistence, and immortality in Jaina philosophy	2
In defence of natural religion	2
The 2024 Big Question Short Essay Competition	2
The characteristic damage of analytic theology: a response to William Wood	2
Non-personal immortality	2
Evil is not evidence	2
RES volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
Alan L. Berger Elie Wiesel: Humanist Messenger for Peace (New York: Routledge, 2021). Pp. xiv + 164. £130.00 (Hbk), £35.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9780415738231.	2
Pointless atheism	2
Naturalism, classical theism, and first causes	2
Divine and mortal loves	1
Byung-Chul Han The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism (Cambridge: Polity, 2022). Pp. vii + 120. £12.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781509545100.	1
Is there non-resistant non-belief?	1
The problem with the problem of mourning	1
You could be immaterial (or not)	1
RES volume 58 issue S1 Cover and Front matter	1
Communal sin, atonement, and group non-agential moral responsibility	1
Evil is still evidence: comment on Almeida	1
Unpacking conceptual idolatry	1
Philosophy and the contemplative way of life	1
The ‘Diderot Objection’ to Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology	1
Helen De Cruz (1978–2025): an academic and personal tribute	1
Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch	1
RES volume 60 issue S1 Cover and Back matter	1
Is religious experience epistemologically reliable? An embodied-philosophical inquiry	1
Experimental philosophy and the problem of evil	1
Is the desire for life rational?	1
Theology meets philosophy of science	1
Newman on emotion and cognition in the Grammar of Assent	1
Roberto Di Ceglie God, the Good, and the Spiritual Turn in Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pp. 350. £64.95 (Hbk). ISBN 9781009203531.	1
RES volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Is theism compatible with pointless non-resistant non-belief?	1
On Orthodox panentheism	1
Can panpsychism solve thorny theological problems?	1
Free will and the moral vice explanation of hell's finality	1
The proper basicality of belief in God and the evil-god challenge	1
RES volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
An interview with Keith Ward	1
A metaphysics of spiritual experience	1
RES volume 61 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
The Sceptical Muslim	1

Divine domination	1
José Eduardo Porcher. Afro-Brazilian Religions, Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). Pp 82. $ 22. ISBN9781009469012	1
RES volume 61 issue S2 Cover and Back matter	1
An interview with Richard Swinburne	1
Joseph C. Schmid and Daniel J. Linford, Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs (Cham: Springer, 2023). Pp. xvi + 378. £104.25. (Hbk). ISBN 9783031193125.	1
Conversational implicatures cannot save divine command theory from the counterpossible terrible commands objection	1
Falsity and untruth	1
Evil and evidence: a reply to Bass	1
Atheistic modal realism	1
No new problem for the Trinity: A reply to Mooney	1
Exemplars in ‘science and religion’: a theological dialogue with Thomas Kuhn	1
Divine psychology and cosmic fine-tuning	1
RES volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
The wisdom of ghosts	1
God as an asset and some paradoxical implications	1
Reversing Pascal: scepticism about religious belief and its value	0
Analytic theology and the academic study of religion: an overview	0
Death, deathless states, and time-consciousness in Sikh philosophy	0
Francis Fallon and Gavin Hyman (eds.). Agnosticism: Explorations in Philosophy and Religious Thought (Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press 2020). Pp. x + 218. £78.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 97801988	0
Daniel A. Dombrowski, Process Mysticism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2023). Pp. x + 248. £19.95 (Pbk.). ISBN 9781438491356	0
Modal panentheism: Developed and defended	0
Should panpsychists be Christians?	0
In defence of partial faith	0
Wisdom and methodological diversity in philosophy of religion	0
Our lives go better in a world created by God	0
When to give weight to weighty religious disagreement	0
Shifting the spotlight: What do we mean by ‘religious language’?	0
Wittgensteinian blasphemy: what it's like to be a heretic	0
Trinity, simplicity, and contradictory theology: a theologian's reflections	0
A Buddhist's guide to self-destruction: Jñānaśrīmitra on the structure of yogic perception	0
Shades of faith: the phenomenon of doubt in early Christianity	0
What could it mean to say that sex is eternal?	0
How much like us?	0
A Christian ethics of blame: or, God says, ‘vengeance is mine’	0
Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive	0
Joseph Rivera and Joseph S. O’Leary (eds) Theological Fringes of Phenomenology (London: Routledge, 2024). Pp. xii + 248. £108.00 (Hbk.) ISBN: 9781032472119	0
A philosophical account of repentance	0
Abraham, Isaac, and the toxin: a Kavkan reading of the binding of Isaac	0
Yujin Nagasawa, The Problem of Evil for Atheists(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). pp. xiii + 252. £ 76.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198901884.	0
RES volume 60 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
The problem of misfortunes	0
Do religious fictionalists face a problem of evil?	0
RES volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
The alchemy of suffering in the laboratory of the world: Vedāntic Hindu engagements with the affliction of animals	0
Evil and embodiment: towards a Latter-day Saint non-identity theodicy	0
In defence of Rebel Angel Theodicy	0
Darwin's doubt or Plantinga's conviction? Some failures in Plantinga's attempt to debunk naturalistic evolution	0
Intellectual humility and Christian faith	0
Knowing what you want–why disembodied repentance is impossible	0
In defence of Mary's consent: a response to Hereth	0
Absolute identity and the Trinity	0
Andrea Aguti, Il miracolo. Saggio di filosofia della religione (Morcelliana, 2025). Pp. 224. € 20.00. ISBN 8837240082.	0
Timothy Knepper Philosophies of Religion: A Global and Critical Introduction (London: Bloomsbury, 2023). Pp. xvi + 476. £24.99/US$34.95 (Pbk). ISBN 9781350262966.	0
The regeneration of the cosmic mind: cosmopsychism, mental chaos, and the new creation	0
Reasonable faith and reasonable fideism	0
In defence of God making stuff up: a reply to Ward	0
‘There can be only one’: A response to Joseph C. Schmid	0
If naturalism is true, then scientific explanation is impossible	0
Adam C. Pelser and W. Scott Cleveland (eds), Faith and Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy in Aid of Becoming Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). £75.00. ISBN 978-0-1928-9534-9.	0
RES volume 61 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
The unreality of traditional Islamic theism's views on belief, providence, and eschatology: a rejoinder to Tabur	0
RES volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
By what measure? A signpost theory of the truth of doctrine	0
Engaging Jeffrey Koperski’s decretalism: is occasionalism really avoidable?	0
Nagasawa's Maximal God and the Ontological Argument	0
Samuel Lebens, The Principles of Judaism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Pp. xviii + 352. £75.00/$100.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198843252.	0
God, love, and analytic philosophy of religion: a feminist proposal	0
Should atheists be worried about modal Calvinist epistemology?	0
An interview with Graham Oppy	0
Jordan Wessling Love Divine: A Systematic Account of God's Love for Humanity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Pp. 288. £70.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 9780198852483.	0
Rethinking the concept of God and the problem of evil from the perspective of African thought	0
‘Orthodox panentheism’ is neither orthodox nor coherent	0
RES volume 61 issue S1 Cover and Front matter	0
Kelly James Clark and Justin Winslett A Spiritual Geography of Early Chinese Thought: Gods, Ancestors, and Afterlife (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2023). Pp. 1–225. £85.00 (Hbk). ISBN 978135026217	0
Robin Le Poidevin And Was Made Man: Mind, Metaphysics, and Incarnation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023). Pp. xv + 229. £65.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780199676576.	0
RES volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Anselm on THAT, THIS, and panpsychism	0
A new problem of evil?	0
RES volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck's Theological Epistemology (London: T&T Clark, 2020). Pp. x + 197. £28.99 (Pbk). ISBN 978-0-5676-9898-8.	0

Minding Creation: an overview	0
Analytic theology and science-engaged theology	0
Naturalism is an unexpected ally of theism in tackling the problem of religious diversity	0
Experimental philosophy of religion	0
Muslim philosophers on the privation theory of evil	0
Rāmānuja’s cosmopsychist-panentheistic solution to the hard problem of consciousness	0
RES volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Counting hiddenness: cognitive science and the distribution of belief in God	0
RES volume 60 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
RES volume 61 issue S2 Cover and Front matter	0
The functions of natural theology in Thomas Aquinas: A presumption of atheism?	0
Psychic immunity and uncomprehended pain: what Maimonides can tell us about the problem of suffering	0
Clifford Williams, Religion and the Meaning of Life: An Existential Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. vi + 189. £22.99 (Pbk). ISBN: 978-1-108-43298-6	0
Saṅghabhadra's arguments for the existence of an intermediate state (antarābhava) between biological death and rebirth as translated by Xuanzang (602?–664 ce)	0
RES volume 61 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
The presumption of compatibilism	0
Shared intentionality and divine persons: explorations in empirical psychology and ramified natural theology	0
Kirk Lougheed (ed.), Four Views on the Axiology of Theism: What Difference Does God Make? (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020). Pp. ix + 177. £85.00 (Hbk). ISBN 781350083530.	0
Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices (New York: New York University Press). Pp. 255. £23.00. ISBN 1479804347.	0
The deal at the dawn of time	0
Panpsychism’s problem of evil?	0
Divine authority as divine parenthood	0
RES volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
God, the laws of nature, and occasionalism	0
Why might God create?	0
Beth Singler Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction(New York: Routledge, 2025). pp. 1–217. £35.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781032187648	0
Truth without truths: Grim's Cantorian paradox and the ontology of the objects of omniscience	0
Theology as social knowledge	0
Experimenting with philosophy of religion: Lessons from two decades of experimental philosophy	0
A guide to the AfterDeath: Maimonides on olam ha-ba’	0
‘Not so much thought out as danced out’: expanding philosophy of religion in the light of Candomblé	0
Elizabeth Pérez, The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 84. £17.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781009031530.	0
Do we need an account of prayer to address the problem for praying without ceasing?	0
How much horrific suffering is enough?	0
The Existence and Nature of Deities	0
Earthly life is not pointless for universalists	0
An argument for the perspectival account of faith	0
‘Hell? Yes!’ Moorean reasons to reject three objections to the possibility of damnation	0
Robyn Horner and Claude Romano (eds), The Experience of Atheism: Phenomenology, Metaphysics and Religion (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). Pp. x + 206. £70.00. ISBN 1350167630.	0
OP David Goodill Nature as Guide: Wittgenstein and the Renewal of Moral Theology (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2022). Pp. xiii + 319. £70.50 (Hbk). ISBN 9780813234458	0
Towards a Buddhist theism	0
Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964–2023)	0
RES volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
Hidden grounds of religious hinge commitments	0
Would integration with religious studies improve analytic theology?	0
Lucifer’s disordered love and the first-person perspective: an Augustinian account of primal sin	0
Life after life: Mullā Ṣadrā on death and immortality	0
Why the Jesus as mother tradition undermines the symbolic argument against women's ordination	0
On the virtues of neutrality	0
Glutty and simple?	0
Engaging philosophically with Afro-Brazilian religions	0
The algorithm and the almighty: rethinking omniscience, suffering, and salvation	0
Kirk Lougheed, Motsamai Molefe, Thaddeus Metz, African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Pp. 78. £17.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781009524896	0
A defence of merit transfer: Aquinas's interpretation and desert theory	0
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour Necessary Existence and Monotheism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 1 + 75. £15.00 (Pbk). ISBN 9781108940054.	0
What if God was all of us? Why the definition of ‘God’ matters in analytic discussions of meaning in life	0
RES volume 60 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Is the cosmological argument intuitive?	0
Does panpsychism entail anti-realism? The worm in the panpsychist apple	0
Underdetermination and unconceived alternatives in science and theology: some historical perspectives	0
Should panpsychists be supernaturalists?	0
Ramon Harvey. Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp xv + 280. $33.90 (Pbk). ISBN 9781474451659	0
Jc Beall, The Contradictory Christ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 185. £45.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780199952360.	0
Mulder’s hail Mary	0
Human rights and divine holiness	0
Is ‘orthodox panentheism’ unorthodox? A response to James Dominic Rooney	0
Two ‘logic’ problems for religious expressivists	0
Contractualism, exclusionary reasons and the moral argument for theism	0
Does analytic theology belong in the public university?	0
God's creativity and religious diversity: a theistic argument for a transformative pluralism	0
Embodied constructivism: the imagination as a vehicle for mental time travel	0
RES volume 59 issue S1 Cover and Back matter	0
RES volume 61 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Joshua Sijuwade. Analytic Theism: A Philosophical Investigation (New York: Routledge Press, 2024). Pp. 1–647. £135.00 (Hbk ISBN 978-1-032-26359-2	0
The curious case of the marginalized mystics	0
The existence and nature of God: contributions from Latin America	0
Divine Contradiction: some snippets	0
In defence of qua-Christology	0
Pretending to be a believer: on understanding religious fictionalism as a role-playing game	0
Roberto di Ceglie Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity (New York, NY: Routledge, 2022). Pp. x + 196. £120.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9781032191805.	0
The modal argument and Bailey's contingent physicalism: a rejoinder	0
Paul K. Moser, Understanding Religious Experience: From Conviction to Life's Meaning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. xi + 352. £29.99 (Pbk). ISBN 9781108558785.	0
RES volume 60 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
The hard problem of ‘pure’ consciousness: Sāṃkhya dualist ontology	0
The old gods as a live possibility: on the rational feasibility of non-doxastic paganism	0
Worship and the problems of human evil and suffering	0
Conceptualizing divine trust	0
Why there is no obligation to love God	0
Evil and suffering in the world	0
Can pantheism explain the existence of the universe?	0
On defining ‘fundamentalism’	0
Minding Creation: response to critics	0
The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer: ERRATUM	0
Conceivability and perfect being theology	0
Non-ideal theory in the philosophy of religion: Exploring implications of non-ideal theorising for the problem of evil	0