The Puzzle of GodM.E. Sharpe, 1997 - 240 Seiten A fresh, lively, and savvy survey of humanity's eternal query: Who or what is God? Vardy examines ancient and modern notions of what it means to talk about "God" ("one of the most fought-over and debated words in the history of ideas"), eternal life, omnipotence, prayer, and more. "An accomplished guide round the battlefield of ideas about God".--Don Cupitt. |
Inhalt
Letter to the Reader | 9 |
Unicorns Numbers and God | 11 |
What is Truth? | 15 |
The Background to the Debate about God | 24 |
Timeless God A Realist View | 37 |
The Everlasting God a Realist View | 45 |
Talk of God as Talk about an Alternative Lifestyle a Realist View | 51 |
God as a Reality within a Religious Form of Life an Antirealist View | 59 |
Omnipotence ΙΙΟ 13 Omniscience | 121 |
Gods Action in the World | 133 |
Petitionary Prayer | 144 |
Praying for Forgiveness | 160 |
Miracles | 175 |
Eternal Life | 193 |
And So ? | 211 |
Postscript | 215 |
The Cosmological Argument | 69 |
The Ontological Argument | 77 |
The Design Argument | 86 |
The Argument from Religious Experience | 99 |
Questions for Consideration | 231 |
Suggested Further Reading | 238 |
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