The Puzzle of God
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 1997
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7656-0169-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Puzzle of God takes a distinctive approach to the complex issues surrounding what it means to claim that God exists. It examines the different ideas of God in common use today, and applies these to the central areas of belief, such as eternal life, prayer, miracles, and talk of God's love, omnipotence and omniscience.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7656-0169-8 (9780765601698)
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Person
Peter Vardy is lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at London University's Heythorp College, and is the author of the highly acclaimed The Puzzle of Ethics, The Puzzle of the Gospels and The Puzzle of Evil.
Content
Letter to the Reader; Chapter 1 Unicorns, Numbers and God; Chapter 2 What is Truth?; Chapter 3 The Background to the Debate about God; Chapter 4 Timeless God - a Realist View; Chapter 5 The Everlasting God - a Realist View; Chapter 6 Talk of God as Talk about an Alternative Lifestyle - a Realist View; Chapter 7 God as a Reality within a Religious Form of Life - an Anti-realist View; Chapter 8 The Cosmological Argument; Chapter 9 The Ontological Argument; Chapter 10 The Design Argument; Chapter 11 The Argument front Religious Experience; Chapter 12 Omnipotence; Chapter 13 Omniscience; Chapter 14 God's Action in the World; Chapter 15 Petitionary Prayer; Chapter 16 Praying for Forgiveness; Chapter 17 Miracles; Chapter 18 Eternal Life; Chapter 19 And So ... ?; Postscript; Questions for Consideration;