God Is Great, God Is Good
2011 Outreach Magazine Book Award winner!\ 2010 Christianity Today Book Award winner!\ 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...
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Is there no heaven or hell, no God, no spiritual realm-just science?That's the message a new generation of dynamic atheist thinkers are shouting from the rooftops, over the airwaves, in the bestseller lists and across cyberspace. They've created a flourishing worldwide, antireligious movement proclaiming that belief in God is not only false but dangerous.Here is a book that answers this challenge with some of the finest thinkers in cosmology, astrophysics, biology, theology and philosophy.William Lane CraigJ.P. MorelandPaul K. MoserJohn PolkinghorneMichael J. BeheMichael J. MurrayChad MeisterAlister McGrathPaul CopanJerry L. WallsCharles TaliaferroScot McKnightGary R. HabermasMark MittelbergIncluding an interview by Gary Habermas with noted convert to theism Antony Flew, and a direct critical response to Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion by Alvin Plantinga, God Is Great, God Is Good offers convincing and compelling reassurance that though the world has changed, God remains both great and good.
Introduction 7Part 1 God is1 Richard Dawkins on Arguments for God William Lane Craig 132 The Image of God and the Failure of Scientific Atheism J. P. Moreland 323 Evidence of a Morally Perfect God Paul K. Moser 49Part 2 God is Great4 God and Physics John Polkinghorne 655 God and Evolution Michael J. Behe 786 Evolutionary Explanations of Religion Michael J. Murray 91Part 3 God is good7 God, Evil and Morality Chad Meister 1078 Is Religion Evil? Alister McGrath 1199 Are old Testament Laws Evil? Paul Copan 13410 How Could God Create Hell? Jerry L. Walls 155Part 4 Why it Matters11 Recognizing Divine Revelation Charles Taliaferro 16912 The Messiah You Never Expected Scot McKnight 18713 Tracing Jesus' Resurrection to Its Earliest Eyewitness Accounts Gary R. Habermas 20214 Why faith in Jesus Matters Mark Mittelberg 217Postscript: My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism Antony Flew Gary Habermas 228Appendix: The Dawkins Confusion: Naturalism "Ad Absurdum": A Review of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion Alvin Plantinga 247Contributors 259Index 263
\ The 2010 Christianity Today Book Awards"Craig and Meister bring together cutting-edge essays that attest powerfully to the massive and growing evidence in favor of theism in general and Christianity in particular. Each essay responds to the charges made by the New Atheists, but this is by no means a polemical book. The writeres set a high bar for reasonable, responsible discourse, and they live up to it."\ \
