The evidence for God: religious knowledge reexamined
If God exists, where can we find adequate evidence for God's existence? In this book, Paul Moser offers a perspective on the evidence for God that centers on a morally robust version of theism that is cognitively resilient. The resulting evidence for God is not speculative, abstract, or casual....
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2010.
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Reviews: | The Evidence for God. Religious Knowledge Reexamined (2011)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Existence of God
/ Cognition theory
/ Religious philosophy
B Natural theology |
| Further subjects: | B
God (Christianity)
B God ; Proof B God Proof B God B Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) |
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Print version: 9780521516563 |
| Summary: | If God exists, where can we find adequate evidence for God's existence? In this book, Paul Moser offers a perspective on the evidence for God that centers on a morally robust version of theism that is cognitively resilient. The resulting evidence for God is not speculative, abstract, or casual. Rather, it is morally and existentially challenging to humans, as they themselves responsively and willingly become evidence of God's reality in receiving and reflecting God's moral character for others. Moser calls this 'personifying evidence of God,' because it requires the evidence to be personified in an intentional agent - such as a human - and thereby to be inherent evidence of an intentional agent. Contrasting this approach with skepticism, scientific naturalism, fideism, and natural theology, Moser also grapples with the potential problems of divine hiddenness, religious diversity, and vast evil. Introduction: 1. A wilderness parable; 2. Beyond taste; 3. The title "God"; 4. Bias in Inquiry; 5. Divine Evidence; 6. Overview -- 1. Nontheistic naturalism: 1. Science and purpose; 2. Purposive explanation; 3. Ontological naturalism; 4. Methodological naturalism; 5. A dilemma for scientism; 6. Theism beyond scientism -- 2. Fideism and faith: 1. Faith; 2. Philosophy and faith; 3. Christian faith; 4. Faith in action; 5. Whither fideism?; 6. Argument-Indifferent fideism -- 3. Natural theology and God: 1. A living God; 2. Whither natural theology?; 3. Natural theology after Darwin; 4. From call to kerygma; 5. Valuing theistic belief; 6. Summary argument -- 4. Personifying evidence of God: 1. Skeptical doubts; 2. Inquirers under scrutiny; 3. From scrutiny to rescue; 4. Arguing for God; 5. Volitional and Filial Knowledge; 6. Good news gift as power; 5. Diversity, evil, and defeat: 1. Religious diversity and logical exclusion; 2. Redemptive exclusivism; 3. Exclusivism toward God; 4. Inclusive Christian Exclusivism; 5. Evil as defeater; 6. Conclusion |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511817738 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511817731 |