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Acknowledgments
I am indebted to John Deck and Cara Stevens for comments and assistance in preparing this entry. I also wish to thank Thomas Churchill for his work editing the final version. [Editors Note, March 2018: Portions of this entry appeared previously in C. Taliaferro, “Philosophy of Religion”, in N. Bunnin and E.P. Tsui-James (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, 2nd edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.]