The problem of God : the challenges of faith, religion, and spirituality today / Erin M. Cline ; foreword by Otto Hentz, SJ.
| Author/creator | Cline, Erin M. author. |
| Other author | Hentz, Otto J., 1938- writer of foreword. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2026] |
| Description | xvi, 196 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Classical Arguments for God's Existence : The Teleological Argument -- Classical Arguments for God's Existence : The Cosmological Argument -- Classical Arguments for God's Existence : The Ontological Argument -- A Hindu Proof of God's Existence -- The Bhagavad Gita and Hindu Views of God -- Confucian Views of Tian ("Heaven"), Ancestor Spirits, and Ritual -- Daoist Views of the Infinite Dao : Theism, Deism, and Agnosticism -- Augustine's God : Overcoming Estrangement and Engaging Mystical Experience -- The Problem of Evil and Theodicy --The Problem of Evil and Atheism -- The Problem of Evil and God's Omnipotence -- Pascal's Wager -- The Problem of Religious Pluralism -- Religious Experience and Conversion. |
| Abstract | "This book, based on the Georgetown University course "The Problem of God" which the author has been teaching for the last fifteen years, explores the challenges of religious belief and spirituality through the lens of both historical and contemporary sources from a diversity of religious traditions around the globe. It explores fundamental issues concerning belief in God, including the existence and nature of God; different forms of theism and alternatives to theism; warranted belief; and the challenges posed by the problem of evil, modern science, atheism, and religious pluralism"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Cline, Erin M. Problem of god Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2026] 9781647126865 |
| LCCN | 2025020049 |
| ISBN | 9781647126841 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1647126843 |
| ISBN | 9781647126858 paperback |
| ISBN | 1647126851 |
| ISBN | ebook |
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| Joyner | Item has been checked out | BT103 .C595 2026 | Due 12/01/2026 | Want This? |