God Matters
1st Edition
Published on 3. December 2013
224 pages
978-0-334-05199-2 (ISBN)
Description
Perhaps human beings are animals, driven by the will to survive and reproduce, perhaps responsibility is a useful fiction and religion is the opium of the masses. Perhaps death is the end, life is ultimately meaningless, brutish and short. Perhaps man is the measure of all things and beauty, truth and justice are open to interpretation. Or, perhaps not.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction Why Does God Matter?
- 1 Faith and Reason
- 2 The Ethics of Belief
- 3 Arguing for God
- 4 Cosmological Arguments
- 5 God and the New Physics
- 6 Teleological Arguments
- 7 Evolution and Fine Tuning
- 8 Ontological Arguments
- 9 Necessity or Nothing
- 10 Probability Arguments
- 11 Encountering the God of Abraham
- 12 Experiences in Religious Contexts
- 13 Specific Religious Experiences
- 14 Near-Death Experiences
- 15 Miracles
- 16 The God of the Philosophers
- 17 The Limits of Language
- 18 The Problem of Evil
- 19 Suffering
- 20 Life After Death
- Conclusion God Matters!
- Index
