If God exists, where can we find adequate evidence for God’s existence? In this book, Paul Moser offers a new perspective on the evidence for God that centers on a morally robust version of theism that is cognitively resilient. The resulting evidence for God is not speculative, abstract, or casual. Rather, it is morally and existentially challenging to humans, as they themselves responsively and willingly become evidence of God’s reality in receiving and reflecting God’s moral character for others. Moser calls this ‘personifying evidence of God,’ because it requires the evidence to be personified in an intentional agent – such as a human – and thereby to be inherent evidence of an intentional agent. Contrasting this approach with skepticism, scientific naturalism, fideism, and natural theology, Moser also grapples with the potential problems of divine hiddenness, religious diversity, and vast evil.
• Answers in a novel manner the following perennial question in philosophy, theology, and religious studies: If God exists, where can we find adequate evidence for God’s existence? • Offers its new account of evidence for God’s existence in contrast with skepticism, scientific naturalism, fideism, and natural theology • Offers responses to the potential problems for theism found in divine hiddenness, religious diversity, and vast evil
Contents
Introduction; 1. Nontheistic naturalism; 2. Fideism and faith; 3. Natural theology and God; 4. Personifying evidence of God; 5. Diversity, evil, and defeat.
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