This important new text introduces the six great arguments for the existence of God. It requires no specialist knowledge of philosophy and includes a wealth of primary sources from classic and contemporary texts. It is ideally suited to students and teachers of philosophy, religious studies and theology at school or university level.
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The Ontological Argument (Anselm, Haight, Descartes, Kant, Findlay, Malcolm, Hick)
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The Cosmological Argument (Aquinas, Taylor, Hume, Kant)
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The Argument from Design (Paley, Hume, Darwin, Dawkins, Ward)
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The Argument from Miracles (Hume, Hambourger, Coleman, Flew, Swinburne, Diamond)
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The Moral Argument (Plato, Lewis, Kant, Rachels, Martin, Nielsen)
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The Pragmatic Argument (Pascal, Gracely, Stich, Penelhum, James, Moore).
Additional features: * Revision questions * Key reading for each chapter and an extensive bibliography * Illustrated biographies of key thinkers and their works * Marginal notes and summaries of arguments.