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God Is Great, God Is Good: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible, Edited by William Lane Craig and Chad Meister

God Is Great, God Is Good

Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible

Edited by William Lane Craig and Chad Meister

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God Is Great, God Is Good
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$34.99
  • Length: 265 pages
  • Dimensions: 6 × 9 in
  • Published: October 15, 2009
  • Imprint: IVP
  • ISBN: 9780830837267
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2011 Outreach Magazine Book Award Winner

2010 Christianity Today Book Award Winner

The days have passed when the goodness of God--indeed, the reality of God itself--could reasonably be called a consensus opinion. God's reputation has come under considerable review in recent days, with some going so far as to say that it's not we who've made a mess of things. Instead whatever it is we call God is to blame.But is such an opinion really a fairassessment? In this magisterial collection, the contemporary complaints against belief in God are addressed with intellectual passion and rigor by some of the most astute theological and philosophical minds of the day:

  • J. P. Moreland
  • Paul Moser
  • John Polkinghorne
  • Michael Behe
  • Michael J. Murray
  • Alister McGrath
  • Paul Copan
  • Jerry Walls
  • Charles Taliaferro
  • Scot McKnight
  • Gary Habermas
  • Mark Mittelberg
  • Chad Meister
  • William Lane Craig

Including an interview by Gary Habermas with noted convert to theism Antony Flew, and a direct critical response to Richard Dawkins's God Delusion by Alvin Plantinga, God Is Great, God Is Good offers convincing and compelling reassurance that though the world has changed, God has not.

CONTENTS

Introduction
Part One: God Is
1 Richard Dawkins on Arguments for God
William Lane Craig
2 The Image of God and the Failure of Scientific Atheism
J. P. Moreland
3 Evidence of a Morally Perfect God
Paul K. Moser
Part Two: God Is Great
4 God and Physics
John Polkinghorne
5 God and Evolution
Michael J. Behe
6 Evolutionary Explanations of Religion?
Michael J.Murray
Part Three: God Is Good
7 God, Evil and Morality
Chad Meister
8 Is Religion Evil?
Alister McGrath
9 Are Old Testament Laws Evil?
Paul Copan
10 How Could God Create Hell?
Jerry L. Walls
Part Four: Why It Matters
11 Recognizing Divine Revelation
Charles Taliaferro
12 The Messiah You Never Expected
Scot McKnight
13 Tracing Jesus' Resurrectionto Its Earliest Eyewitness Accounts
Gary R. Habermas
14 Why Faith in Jesus Matters
Mark Mittelberg
Postscript: My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism
Antony Flew (with Gary Habermas)
Appendix A: The Dawkins Confusion: Naturalism "Ad Absurdum": Review of
Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion
Alvin Plantinga
Contributors
Index

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ABOUT William Lane Craig

William Lane Craig

William Lane Craig (PhD, University of Birmingham, England; DTheol, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) is professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and at Houston Baptist University. In 2016 he was named by The Best Schools as one of the fifty most influential living philosophers. Craig has authored or edited over forty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; God, Time, and Eternity; and God and Abstract Objects, as well as over 150 articles in professional publications of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, New Testament Studies, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, and British Journal for Philosophy of Science.

ABOUT Chad Meister

Chad Meister

Chad Meister (PhD, Marquette University) is professor of philosophy and theology and chair of the department of religion and philosophy at Bethel University in Mishawaka, Indiana. His publications include God and the Problem of Evil: Five Views, Evil: A Guide for the Perplexed, Contemporary Philosophical Theology, The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity, and the six-volume work The History of Evil.

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