This module will help students to gain detailed insight into key contemporary debates in the philosophy of religion (predominantly in the Western tradition). Students will have the opportunity to confront and respond to challenges that arise, metaphysically and epistemologically, in this field. Questions that arise include whether ‘God-talk’ is merely nonsense, as some have claimed. Is the concept of ‘God’ even logically consistent? What is the relationship between faith and reason? How serious a threat is posed to coherent religious belief by the existence of evil and suffering?