...This chapter concludes the book by narrating the UAF Flight 571 survivors' experience with God, and explaining the two kinds of religion: cultural and natural. Some survivors claimed that the divine presence they encountered on the mountain was quite different from the one discussed in Sunday...

...This chapter examines Ronald Dworkin's reflections on the good life. More specifically, it considers Dworkin's view that we should all seek to live well so as to achieve “successful” lives and avoid “wasted” ones. In his posthumously published Religion Without God, Dworkin argues...

.... Koheleth is a monotheist, whereas Epicurus is a polytheist, but in neither case is the divine the center of attention. Epicurus affirms that the gods exist but denies that they have any effect on human events. Koheleth refers to God only occasionally and not in standard ways. Both urge moderation...

... is rooted in religious traditions. Whenever and wherever people have thought deeply about the relation of human knowledge to God, this profound uncertainty has emerged and reasserted itself. Paradoxically, it has been this very uncertainty that has repeatedly undermined dogma and made way for the progress...

... motivation behind the scientific turn to many-worlds scenarios, making the multiverse theory a sort of replacement for the God-as-creator argument, albeit with an equally perplexing article of faith. Carr Bernard cosmos earth Family Guy television show fine tuning Greene Brian infinity multiplicity...

... sort of material process created the universe since a theist would claim that God created that material process. The point being forwarded here is that the distinctions between the seemingly antagonistic terms of science and religion are highly unstable when it comes to the multiverse. What the debate...

... the continuity of a distinctively Jewish identity. In particular, it examines the tension between Judaism's claim to universal truth as an account of the nature of God and of his relation to man, on the one hand, and as a religion of the Jews as a very particular people. The chapter focuses on how these two...

...Where the question of why people believe unbelievable things is raised. Elijah Prophet Jehovah Baal Carmel Mount Israelites God gods other than Judeo Christian God miracles Abelard Peter Augustine of Hippo Saint idolatry idols On the Trinity Augustine On the Unity and Trinity of God...

...A short ethical discussion of the benefits of slaying in the name of God. Amalekites Jehovah Samuel Prophet Saul King Assyrians Abraham Patriarch Conflict of the Faculties Kant Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard Isaac Patriarch Judaism Kant Immanuel Kierkeggard Søren “Existentialism...

...Where God's invitation to eat his flesh raises unexpected problems. What do we do with spiders and mice and where in the digestive system does the Eucharist turn back into flour and wine before things get really nasty. Incarnation Sephirot Trinity Bosquet Pierre François Joseph Paul Saint...

...This chapter examines the notion of God-as-spirit, first proposed by the Reverend Samuel Clarke, and its flaws. Clarke, an important English thinker of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, goes for the idea of God-as-spirit because he agrees that physical things are governed...

...This chapter refutes the atheist's claim that God doesn't exist. Under the logic of cause and effect, the world, if it exists, must have had a cause. The existence of the world absolutely requires that there was a First Cause—an Unmoved Mover, God—that caused the world to exist in the first place...

..., the effect comes later. The effect cannot come before the cause. A lot of very smart people today, including scientists, insist that we don't need God to explain the world. Science does the job of accounting for everything. This argument is the same argument put forward by atheists. Some atheists are also...

...This chapter argues that there is no idea of God and that God is Conceptually Impossible. We want God to exist because we want to make sense of the world. And we want to make sense of the world because we want to know who we are and how we got here and what we're supposed to do and why we're...

...This afterword recommends additional reading materials that provide a more extensive introduction to idea that God does or does not exist. A good place to begin would be Book Lambda of Aristotle's Metaphysics, where we encounter the notion of an Unmoved Mover. A classic statement...

...This chapter examines how the death-drenched World Trade Center disaster called into question the comfortable assumptions about God and the future for many survivors, and how such existential questions extended their apocalyptic confusions. The firsthand immersion in the death that surrounded many...

...This chapter examines the continuity-discontinuity relationship between Christianity and Modernity as it is marked by “the greatest recent event that the belief in the Christian God has become unbelievable.” The task of Modernity is to overcome the Christian God completely. In light of this strong...

.... The chapter also considers the Hebrew Bible and its presentation of God—the Eternal One—not as an object of rational reflection but as an independent subject, the “I am,” as a partner in dialogue. 1. See Fritz Kaufmann , “Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Religion,” in The Philosophy of Martin...

... ought to be understood as a central pivot for the reconsideration of Western thought more generally. It also considers Nietzsche’s claim that “God is dead,” suggesting that it is neither a theological statement nor an axiom of atheism. Instead, it is a statement about Western metaphysics, epistemology...

..., whose work, A Stillborn God, critiques modern liberal philosophy for its tolerance for political theology. Lilla views the persistence of political theology as a repudiation of the “great separation,” and therefore as a sign of the failure of modern liberalism and modern political order...