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Title Is Faith in God reasonable? : debates in philosophy, science, and rhetoric / edited by Corey Miller and Paul Gould
Published New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (188 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion
Routledge studies in the philosophy of religion.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; PART I Introduction and Debate; 1 Introduction: Faith, Reason, and God; 2 The Debate: Is Faith in God Reasonable?; PART II Respondents; 3 God and the Rational Basis for Science; 4 Faith in Anything Is Unreasonable; 5 God without Argument; 6 Some Philosophical Aspects of the Craig-Rosenberg Debate; 7 There Are Serious Reasons for Belief in the Existence of God; 8 Not Reasonable but Not Unreasonable; 9 Rhetoric as Hermeneutic Key: The Reasonableness of Faith in God; 10 Faith, Not Reason, Underwrites the Belief in God
PART III Rejoinders11 Reply to Our Respondents: An Eminently Reasonable Faith; 12 Replies to Critics: Very Brief, Very Selective, Rather Snarky; Contributors; Index
Summary The question of whether faith in God is reasonable is of renewed interest in today's academy. In light of this interest, as well as the rise of militant religion and terrorism and the emergent reaction by neo-atheism, this volume considers this important question from the views of contemporary scientists, philosophers, and in a more novel fashion, of rhetoricians. It is comprised of a public debate between William Lane Craig, supporting the position that faith in God is reasonable and Alex Rosenberg, arguing against that position. Scholars in the aforementioned fields then respond to
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Faith and reason -- Christianity.
Faith and reason.
Faith.
faith.
RELIGION -- General.
Faith
Faith and reason
Faith and reason -- Christianity
Form Electronic book
Author Miller, Corey, 1972- editor.
Gould, Paul M., 1971- editor.
ISBN 9781134630370
1134630379
9780415709408
0415709407
9781315885544
1315885549
9781134630448
1134630441