The Deepest Questions You Can Ask about God: As Answered by the World's Great Thinkers

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Rodopi, 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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Foreword by the Series Editor
7
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
Index of Authors and Anonymous
137
About the Author 143
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