The Deepest Questions You Can Ask about God: As Answered by the World's Great ThinkersRodopi, 1995 - 142 páginas William Gerber has matched his keen analysis of the key problems concerning God with a wealth of reflections from the wisdom of the ages. Thus, he has gotten the great thinkers of the world to work for him - and for you [...] This handy book has considerable value as a reference work while giving abundant thought to the reflective reader who wonders about God. Philosophy as an art of wondering must face the God questions. These are questions not only of God's existence, but of what God might exist as, of how we might know that, and of what such a God's relationship to human beings may be. Reading through this book is journeying through our humanity caught in a universe of wonder [...] Gerber's comments - critical, gentle, eminently reasonable - are a consolation as well as guide to the reader. Even if this work of erudition and inquiry doesn't answer all our questions about God, we are better human beings for reading it and taking it to heart. Maybe God could learn something about us from it too. - Robert Ginsberg, Executive Editor |
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Part 1 | 11 |
HOW SHOULD WE EVALUATE CONSIDERATIONS | 11 |
Does the Very Nature or Idea of a Divine Being | 17 |
Does the Presence of Design and Direction | 25 |
Preliminary Remarks | 35 |
How Is God Related to the Good? | 45 |
Is God a Person? Does God Know Feel | 53 |
What Other Significant Attributes Characterize | 65 |
How Is God Related to the Cosmos | 81 |
How Is God Related to Human Beings | 90 |
Source References | 117 |
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About the Author 143 | |
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