NINE years ago Hazen Foundation and Committee on Religion and Higher Education of American Council of Education sponsored volume, College Reading and Religion,1 composed of thirteen chapters each dealing with major college discipline and written by specialist within field. whole was an attempt evaluate treatment of in college texts. chapter on Problems of was written by Peter A. Bertocci of Boston University and included series of criteria by which introductory texts in philosophy should be judged. They must explain essential scope and meaning of Hebrew-Christian standpoint, without disregarding other influential religious world views.2 Specifically this means the belief in Being, independent of man, who is ultimate Source and Conserver of existence and values . . person.3 nature and attributes of this God, arguments for and against God, case for human freedom, case for personal immortality, philosophical conclusions and ethical attitudes which religious belief leads must be expounded. This paper attempts continue earlier study by examining in light of its criteria six texts which have appeared within present decade. Their treatment of will be briefly summarized, their adequacy judged, and certain conclusions noted. Louis O. Kattsoff in Elements of Philosophy4 attempts meet need for a general, philosophic introduction meanings of ideas and ... methods of critically analyzing and evaluating them.5 This analytic approach is well illustrated in chapter devoted The Religious Problem which revolves about answers six questions. 1. What is meant by A expresses set of behavior patterns and beliefs as highest and best values; it concerns itself with enumerating and explaining them and not with justifying them, except in secondary sense.6 2. What is meant by word Some characteristic adjectives used modify word are noted, and it is pointed out that these terms applied univocally are difficult accept, e.g., notion of as father or creator. Additional problems include reconciliation of an unchanging and act of creation, reconciliation of an allgood and all-powerful with problem of evil, affirmation of existence of whose nature is beyond human knowledge. 3. What is meant by God exists? This means that God is real, that there is being God, having certain properties.' 4. What is evidence for existence of God? ontological, psychological, cosmological, teleological, moral, and probability arguments are stated, but none of these is said be logically valid since they all make dubious assumptions. 5. What are some of solutions problems in philosophy of religion? Ayer's positivism, Dewey's naturalism, Brightman's empiricism, and Hocking's idealism are all briefly described. To his last question, 6. do we know facts about Kattsoff gives no specific answer but points out that here we return basic problem of all philosophy, How should one conceive reality ? Archie J. Bahm's Philosophy, An Introduction8 devotes chapter philosophy of which is defined as scientific study of religion general problem of which is to discover nature of religion and investigate its various characteristics * BERT C. WILLIAMS is Professor of Philosophy in Chapman College, Orange, California.