Between Faith and Doubt: Dialogues on Religion and Reason Book

Preface ix

1 Defining the Issue: Naturalism vs. Religion 1

2 Can God's Existence Be Proved? 13

3 What Do We Mean by God? 21

4 Religion without Transcendence? 30

5 Religious Experience 39

6 Trusting Religious Experience 54

7 Despite the Religious Contradictions? 63

8 Neuroscience and Religious Experience 80

9 More on Neuroscience 89

10 Implications for Christianity 95

11 Implications for Islam 108

12 The Religions: Good or Bad? 121

13 Suffering and Wickedness 135

14 Life after Death? 145

15 Cosmic Optimism 159

Notes 167

Index 175