Part one: God is. Richard Dawkins on arguments for God / William Lane Craig -- The image of God and the failure of scientific atheism / J. P. Moreland -- Evidence of a morally perfect God / Paul K. Moser -- Part two: God is great. God and physics / John Polkinghorne -- God and evolution / Michael J. Behe -- Evolutionary explanations of religion / Michael J. Murray -- Part three: God is good. God, evil and morality / Chad Meister -- Is religion evil? / Alister McGrath -- Are Old Testament laws evil? / Paul Copan -- How could God create hell? / Jerry L. Walls -- Part four: Why it matters. Recognizing divine revelation / Charles Taliaferro -- The messiah you never expected / Scot McKnight -- Tracing Jesus' resurrection to its earliest eyewitness accounts / Gary R. Habermas -- Why faith in Jesus matters / Mark Mittelberg -- Postscript: My pilgrimage from atheism to theism / Antony [sic] Flew (with Gary Habermas) -- Appendix: The Dawkins confusion: naturalism "Ad absurdum": a review of Richard Dawkins's The god delusion / Alvin Plantinga.
Summary:
The days have passed when the goodness of God -- indeed, the reality of God itself -- could reasonably be called a consensus opinion. God's reputation has come under considerable review in recent days, with some going so far as to say that it's not we who've made a mess of things. Instead whatever it is we call God is to blame. But is such an opinion really a fair assessment? In this magisterial collection, the contemporary complaints against belief in God are addressed with intellectual passion and rigor by some of the most astute theological and philosophical minds of the day. - Publisher.
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