Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: The Concept of God
1. The God of the Greeks
2. The God of classical theism
Chapter Two: The Cosmological Argument
1. The kalam cosmological argument
2. Thomas Aquinas
3. Criticism
Chapter Three: The Teleological Argument
1. The mechanical universe
2. Attack rebuffe? The modern debate
3. Challenges of science
Chapter Four: The Ontological Argument
1. St. Anselm's first argument
2. St. Anselm's second argument
3. Modern supporters and critics
4. The modal ontological argument
5. Understanding God
Chapter Five: The Moral Argument
1. Morality directly from God
2. Kant and the highest good
3. Non-religious explanations
Chapter Six: The Argument from Religious Experience
1. Types of religious experience
2. Everyday language
3. Beyond everyday language
4. Other types of religious experience
Chapter Seven: Miracles
1. Transgressions of the laws of nature
2. Working within nature
Chapter Eight: Faith and Reason
1. The relation between faith and reason
2. Pragmatism
3. Basic beliefs
Chapter Nine: Religious Language
1. What is religious language?
2. Does religious language have meaning?
3. How can we talk about God?
4. Is religious language a game?
Chapter Ten: The Problem of Evil
1. God and inconsistencies
2. God is not the cause of evil
3. Theodicies
4. The free will defence
5. Alternatives
Chapter Eleven: Life After Death
1. The mind-body problem
2. Evidence for life after death