The Evidence for God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined
If God exists, where can we find adequate evidence for God’s existence? In this book, Paul Moser offers a new perspective on the evidence for God that centers on a morally robust version of theism that is cognitively resilient. The resulting evidence for God is not speculative, abstract, or casual. Rather, it is morally and existentially challenging to humans, as they themselves responsively and willingly become evidence of God’s reality in receiving and reflecting God’s moral character for...
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If God exists, where can we find adequate evidence for God's existence? In this book, Paul Moser offers a new perspective on the evidence for God that centers on a morally robust version of theism that is cognitively resilient. The resulting evidence for God is not speculative, abstract, or casual. Rather, it is morally and existentially challenging to humans, as they themselves responsively and willingly become evidence of God's reality in receiving and reflecting God's moral character for others. Moser calls this "personifying evidence of God," because it requires the evidence to be personified in an intentional agent - such as a human - and thereby to be inherent evidence of an intentional agent. Contrasting this approach with skepticism, scientific naturalism, fideism, and natural theology, Moser also grapples with the potential problems of divine hiddenness, religious diversity, and vast evil.
Preface ixIntroduction 11 A Wilderness Parable 22 Beyond Taste 163 The Title "God" 224 Bias in Inquiry 275 Divine Evidence 306 Overview 401 Nontheistic Naturalism 461 Science and Purpose 482 Purposive Explanation 523 Ontological Naturalism 634 Methodological Naturalism 745 A Dilemma for Sdentism 766 Theism beyond Scientism 842 Fideism and Faith 881 Faith 902 Philosophy and Faith 923 Christian Faith 1044 Faith in Action 1105 Whither Fideism? 1196 Argument-Indifferent Fideism 1253 Natural Theology and God 1421 A Living God 1432 Whither Natural Theology? 1513 Natural Theology after Darwin 1634 From Call to Kerygma 1705 Valuing Theistic Belief 1756 Summary Argument 1824 Personifying Evidence of God 1851 Skeptical Doubts 1862 Inquirers under Scrutiny 1913 From. Scrutiny to Rescue 1954 Arguing for God 2005 Volitional and Filial Knowledge2096 Good News Gift as Power 2165 Diversity, Evil, and Defeat 2311 Religious Diversity and logical Exclusion 2322 Redemptive Exclusivism 2363 Exclusivism toward God 2414 Inclusive Christian Exclusivism 2485 Evil as Defeater 2546 Conclusion 262References 267Index 275
