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As human beings, we are created with desires. We all long for
meaningful relationships, lives that reflect goodness, engagements
with beauty, and the freedom to pursue our lives with integrity.
But where can our restless hearts find fulfillment for these
universal longings? Philosopher and apologist Greg Ganssle argues
that our widely shared human aspirations are best understood and
explained in light of the Christian story. With grace and insight,
Ganssle explains how the good news of Jesus Christ makes sense
of-and fulfills-our deepest desires. It is only in the particular
claims of the Christian faith, he argues, that our universal human
aspirations can find fulfillment and our restless hearts will be at
peace.
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.
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 Ganssleas "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.
Can we really think about God? Can we prove God's existence? What
about faith? Are there good reasons to believe in the Christian
God? What about evil? Can we really know with our finite minds
anything for sure about a transcendent God? Can we avoid thinking
about God? The real problem, says philosopher Gregory E. Ganssle,
is not whether we can think about God, but whether we will think
well or poorly about God. Admittedly there is a lot of bad thinking
going around. But Ganssle, who teaches students, wants to help us
think better, especially about God. He thinks philosophy can
actually help. In the first part of this book Ganssle lays the
groundwork for clear and careful thinking, providing us an
introductory guide to doing philosophy. In the second part Ganssle
then takes us through the process of thinking well about God in
particular. He asks us to consider whether there are good reasons
to believe that God exists. He thinks there are In a third part
Ganssle addresses the thorny issue of the existence both of God and
of evil. He thinks there's a valid way through this problem. In the
final part Ganssle helps us thread our way through questions like:
What is God like? What can God do? What can God know? How does God
communicate? He thinks that there are some clear answers to these
questions, at least if you?re talking about the God of
Christianity. If you're looking for your first book for thinking
clearly and carefully about God, then you'll appreciate the good
thinking found in this book.
God and Time is a collection of previously unpublished essays written by leading philosophers about God's relation to time. The essays have been selected to represent current debates written between those who believe God to be atemporal and those who do not. The essays highlight issues such as how the nature of time is relevant to whether God is temporal and how God's other attributes are compatible with his mode of temporal being. By focusing on the metaphysical aspects of time and temporal existence, God and Time will make a unique contribution to the current resurgence of interest in philosophical theology within the analytic tradition.
The eternal God has created the universe. And that universe is
time-bound. How can we best understand God's relationship with our
time-bound universe? For example, does God experience each moment
of time in succession or are all times present to God? How we think
of God and time has implications for our understanding of the
nature of time, the creation of the universe, God's knowledge of
the future, God's interaction with his creation and the fullness of
God's life. In this book, four notable philosophers skillfully take
on this difficult topic--all writing from within a Christian
framework yet contending for different views. Paul Helm argues that
divine eternity should be construed as a state of absolute
timelessness. Alan G. Padgett maintains that God's eternity is more
plausibly to be understood as relative timelessness. William Lane
Craig presents a hybrid view that combines timelessness with
omnitemporality. And Nicholas Wolterstorff advocates a doctrine of
unqualified divine temporality. Each essay is followed by responses
from the other three contributors and a final counter-response from
the original essayist, making for a lively exchange of ideas.
Editor Gregory E. Ganssle provides a helpful introduction to the
debate and its significance. Together these five scholars conduct
readers on a stimulating and mind-stretching journey into one of
the most controversial and challenging areas of theology today.
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