The Evidence for God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined

ISBN-13: 9780521736282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 292 str.

Paul K. Moser

Opis

If God exists, where can we find adequate evidence for God s existence? In this book, Paul Moser offers a new 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."

Recenzje

'This is a powerful and highly thought-provoking book, always meticulously argued, but also written with the kind of overt emotional commitment that is rare in contemporary philosophy of religion, particularly that dealing with epistemological questions.' The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Nontheistic naturalism; 2. Fideism and faith; 3. Natural theology and God; 4. Personifying evidence of God; 5. Diversity, evil, and defeat.