University Press of America
Pages: 148
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Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-0-7618-2647-7 • Paperback • October 2003 • $67.99 • (£52.00)
978-1-4616-7639-3 • eBook • October 2003 • $64.50 • (£50.00)
Hal Flemings, former Hebrew Language Instructor at Foundation College in San Diego, is an Insurance and Securities Instructor at the Pioneer School of Insurance.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 The Question of Relevance: What does "God" Mean?; Logically Deduced God and Theologically Deduced God; Why Be Concerned?; Exploring the Possibility of an Interacting God; The "Third Group"
Chapter 4 Identifying Viewpoints: What Deists Have Argued; What Theists Have Argued; What Pantheists Have Argued; What Atheists Have Argued; What Agnostics Have Argued
Chapter 5 A History of the Debate: A Survey from Ancient Times to 500 B.C.E.; A Survey from 500 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.; A Survey from 1500 C.E. to 1900 C.E.; A Survey from 1900 C.E. to the Present
Chapter 6 Distilling the Negative Arguments: The Problem of Contradictions; The Problem of Evil and Suffering; The Problem of Knowing the Unknown; The Psychological Argument; The Science Explicates and Thus God Vacates Argument
Chapter 7 Distilling the Positive Arguments: The Cosmological Argument; The Teleological Argument; The Anthropological Argument; The Ontological Argument; The Scientific Argument
Chapter 8 Deductions from Creation Pertaining to the Nature of God
Chapter 9 Answers to the Atheists and Agnostics: The Ugly History of Religion; Only A Priori Propositions are Logically Certain; The Loving/Powerful God Controversy; Does a Non-Material Being Actually Exist?; Can Humans Comprehend God?; If God Knows Everythin
Chapter 10 A Second Look at the Problem of Evil and Suffering: The Socio-Psychological Response; What about Natural Disasters?; Theological Responses
Chapter 11 The Non- Circular Argument for the Existence of God Using the Bible: Scientific Anticipations; Historical Anticipations
Chapter 12 Why Not the Other Holy Books?: A Question of Fairness; Buddhist Sacred Literature; Hindu Sacred Literature; Science and Health; The Quran; Bahai Sacred Literature; The Avesta
Chapter 13 "Yesh Elohim"
Chapter 14 Name Index
Chapter 15 Subject Index