The Evidence for God
Religious Knowledge Reexamined

Paul Moser offers a perspective on the evidence for God that centers on a morally robust version of theism that is cognitively resilient.

Paul K. Moser (Author)

9780521516563, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 November 2009

292 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.52 kg

'This is a powerful and highly thought-provoking book, always meticulously argued, but also written with the kind of overt emotional commitment that is rare in contemporary philosophy of religion, particularly that dealing with epistemological questions.' The Times Literary Supplement

If God exists, where can we find adequate evidence for God's existence? In this book, Paul Moser offers a 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.

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

Subject Areas: Philosophy of religion [HRAB], Religion & beliefs [HR]