TY  - BOOK
AU  - Porter,Burton F.
TI  - The Great Perhaps: God As a Question
SN  - 9781442247222
AV  - BL473 -- .P678 2015eb 
U1  - 212 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
KW  - Religion
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 When Religion First Trembled into Expression -- 2 National Religions of the Ancients -- 3 The Nature of the Western God -- 4 An Array of Alternative Beliefs -- 5 Classic Arguments for God's Existence-and Their Critiques -- 6 The Evidence of Common Sense -- 7 If God Is Good, Why Do People Suffer? -- 8 Other Proposed Explanations -- 9 How Can Religious Claims Be Established? -- 10 Famous Challenges to Faith -- 11 The Stormy Relations between Science and Religion -- 12 How Religion Relates to Society -- 13 Immortality: A Diversity of Beliefs -- 14 Religion Today-Its Multiple Forms -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
N2  - Burton F. Porter explores the philosophical question of the existence of God in an open, yet critical, way, examining the argumentation used by centuries of human society to support or reject divinity
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ER  -