Why Believe?

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Belief and its Benefits -- 1. How believing affects living -- 2. How believing works -- 3. Belief and human sensibilities -- 4. Belief and integrity -- 2 Belief, Reason, Goodness -- 1. Yearnings and their 'objective correlative' -- 2. From benefits to reasons -- 3. God as source -- 4. The best explanation? -- 3 Belief and the Unknown -- 1. The unknown God? -- 2. Hume's critique -- 3. The problems of transcendence -- 4. Revelation and the Incarnate Word -- 4 Obstacles to Belief -- 1. How difficult can it get? -- 2. Supernatural intervention -- 3. Back to fundamentalism? -- 4. Revelation and recognition -- 5 Belief and Meaning -- 1. Truth and concealment -- 2. Evidence and accessibility -- 3. Vision and transformation -- 4. Moral growth and spiritual conversion -- 6 Learning to Believe -- 1. The lessons of life -- 2. Prevailing images of belief: exclusivism -- 3. Ultimate responsibility -- 4. Souls and the afterlife -- 7 Believing and Living -- 1. Providence and suffering -- 2. Humility and hope -- 3. Awe and thanksgiving -- 4. 'Walk the believer's road!' -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

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