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The Great Perhaps : God As a Question.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (293 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442247222
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Great PerhapsDDC classification:
  • 212
LOC classification:
  • BL473 -- .P678 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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