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medieval thought has exerted a strong infl uence. This omission appears to have resulted from the editorial decision to spread discussion of issues in philosophy of religion over various chapters (analogous language in Ashworth, the existence of God in Menn, eternity and foreknowledge and necessity in Marenbon, creation in Sylla and Dobbs-Weinstein). This was not, in my opinion, a good idea. So important an intersection between medieval and contemporary thought as philosophy of religion deserved its own chapter, where the reader could readily fi nd an account of medieval treatments not only of the topics just mentioned but also of the nature of faith, the divine attributes, the problem of evil, and so forth.