A remarkable revival of interest in philosophy of religion occurred during the final third of the twentieth century. The demise of logical positivism had freed philosophers of religion from their preoccupation with responding to its verificationist challenge to the meaningfulness of religious language. A narrow empiricism in epistemology ceased to play a foundational role in the philosophy of the Anglophone world. The philosophical community became more pluralistic in its views about the methods and assumptions that may fruitfully be brought to bear on the study of religion. At the same time, the philosophical community was growing in size, largely as a result of the rapid expansion of systems of higher education in countries such as the United States. As a result of these developments, philosophical reflection on religion came to be conducted by more philosophers with a greater...