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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451636703321

Autore

Layman C. Stephen

Titolo

Letters to Doubting Thomas [[electronic resource] ] : A Case for the Existence of God

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

ISBN

1-280-84667-4

0-19-804210-8

1-4294-3873-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

210.1

212/.1

Soggetti

God

Naturalism

Theism

God - Proof

Theism - Religious aspects

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Religion - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; Introduction; 1. Theism and Naturalism; 2. Religious Experience and Interpretation; 3. Is Religious Experience Reliable?; 4. A Cosmological Argument; 5. A Design Argument; 6. An Argument from Free Will; 7. Theism and Evil; 8. Naturalism and Evil; 9. A Moral Argument; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

When people encounter an argument for or against God's existence, it often raises more questions than it answers. In Letters to Doubting Thomas, C. Stephen Layman offers a fresh, insightful approach to the issue of God's existence--a way to organize what can seem like a blizzard of claims and concepts--bringing clarity to a debate often mired in confusion. Layman explores the evidence for the existence of



God in a series of fictionalized letters between two characters--Zachary, a philosopher, and Thomas, an old college friend who appeals to Zach for help in sorting out his thoughts about God.