The Evidence for God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined Book

Preface ix

Introduction 1

1 A Wilderness Parable 2

2 Beyond Taste 16

3 The Title "God" 22

4 Bias in Inquiry 27

5 Divine Evidence 30

6 Overview 40

1 Nontheistic Naturalism 46

1 Science and Purpose 48

2 Purposive Explanation 52

3 Ontological Naturalism 63

4 Methodological Naturalism 74

5 A Dilemma for Sdentism 76

6 Theism beyond Scientism 84

2 Fideism and Faith 88

1 Faith 90

2 Philosophy and Faith 92

3 Christian Faith 104

4 Faith in Action 110

5 Whither Fideism? 119

6 Argument-Indifferent Fideism 125

3 Natural Theology and God 142

1 A Living God 143

2 Whither Natural Theology? 151

3 Natural Theology after Darwin 163

4 From Call to Kerygma 170

5 Valuing Theistic Belief 175

6 Summary Argument 182

4 Personifying Evidence of God 185

1 Skeptical Doubts 186

2 Inquirers under Scrutiny 191

3 From. Scrutiny to Rescue 195

4 Arguing for God 200

5 Volitional and Filial Knowledge209

6 Good News Gift as Power 216

5 Diversity, Evil, and Defeat 231

1 Religious Diversity and logical Exclusion 232

2 Redemptive Exclusivism 236

3 Exclusivism toward God 241

4 Inclusive Christian Exclusivism 248

5 Evil as Defeater 254

6 Conclusion 262

References 267

Index 275