📚 Ontological Proof

Books with ontological proof on their catalogue record, first published between 1473 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ontological proof in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 282 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The guide of the perplexed of Maimonides	Moses Maimonides	1473	116
	Meditationes de prima philosophia	René Descartes	1642	60
	Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Religion	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	1840	25
	Fides quaerens intellectum	Karl Barth	1931	9
	The Existence of God	François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon	1888	8
	Meditations on First Philosophy	René Descartes	2013	8
	Rethinking the ontological argument	Daniel A. Dombrowski	2006	7
	Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy	Kurt Brandhorst	2010	6
	A treatise on God as first principle	John Duns Scotus	1910	5
	Monologion	Anselm of Canterbury	1929	5
	Ontological Proofs Today	Miroslaw Szatkowski	2012	5
	Proslogium	Anselm of Canterbury	1910	4
	Anselm	Karl Barth	1930	4
	The ontological proof in Thomistic and Kantian interpretation	Olle Herrlin	1950	3
	The logic of perfection	Charles Hartshorne	1962	3
	A guided tour of René Descartes' Meditations on first philosophy	Christopher Biffle	1989	3
	Y a-t-il un dieu?	Jean-Claude Barreau	2006	3
	Gottesbeweise	Reinhard Hiltscher	2008	3
	Argument and persuasion in Descartes' Meditations	David Cunning	2009	3
	Out of My Mind	WJ de Kock	2014	3
	Ontological Arguments	Graham Oppy	2018	3
	Ontological Arguments	Tyron Goldschmidt	2020	3
	A vindication of the argument	Frederick Beasley	1825	2
	Der ontologische Gottesbeweis	Georg Runze	1882	2
	Dasein und Wesen Gottes	Joseph Mausbach	1930	2
	Argumentum ontologicum	Johannes Lambertus Springer	1946	2
	Fides quaerens intellectum	Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury	1954	2
	The ontological argument, from St. Anselm to contemporary philosophers	Alvin Plantinga	1965	2
	La idea de Dios en Charles Hartshorne	Tobías Díaz Blaitry	1967	2
	The many-faced argument	John Hick	1968	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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