A Reasonable God: Engaging the New Face of Atheism Contributor(s): Ganssle, Gregory E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1481314823 ISBN-13: 9781481314824 Publisher: Baylor University Press OUR PRICE: $44.54 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Philosophy - Philosophy | Religious |
Dewey: 212.1 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.03 lbs) 201 pages |
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Publisher Description: Calmly engaging the philosophical arguments posed by best-selling authors Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins, and to a lesser extent, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, Gregory Ganssle's A Reasonable God is a nuanced, charitable, and philosophically well-informed defense of the existence of God. Eschewing the rhetoric and provocative purposes of the New Atheists, Ganssle instead lucidly and objectively analyzes each argument on its own philosophical merits, to see how persuasive they prove to be. Surveying topics including the relationship between faith and reason, moral arguments for the existence of God, the Darwinian theories of the origin of religion, he pays particular attention to, and ultimately rejects, what he determines is the strongest logical argument against the existence of god posed by the new atheists, put forth by Dawkins: that our universe resembles more of what an atheistic universe would be like than it does with what a theistic universe would be like. |