The Evidence for God

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.

ISBN 0521736285   Pages 290 ISBN13 9780521736282 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 400 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Height (mm) 228 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 152 Publication date 30 Nov 2009   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY 212   Academic level Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

Introduction; 1. Nontheistic naturalism; 2. Fideism and faith; 3. Natural theology and God; 4. Personifying evidence of God; 5. Diversity, evil, and defeat.

'There is much in this readable and pointed book that will interest and challenge both philosophers and theologians, and the epistemological reorientation Moser develops has the potential to significantly alter debates in current philosophy of religion, and for the better.' Patrick B. Arnold, The Review of Metaphysics

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