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Review of Paul K. Moser, 'The Evidence for God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined'. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. x + 280 pp.

Peter Forrest

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Abstract

In this important work, Paul Moser argues from the experience of moral transformation to the existence of a god worthy of worship. He does so after rejecting fideism and reformed epistemology and after criticizing any natural theology based on premises that are public or scientific knowledge. In the introduction he puts this argument in the context of his parable of Hell's Canyon: hikers lost in inaccessible terrain debating about what. if any help they might get. Moser's point is that the existence of Cod is not a purely intellectual topic. Although Moser's argument is full of interesting detail, its outline is straight forward. The book is a case for the existence of a God worth believing in," as people say, or more precisely, a god worth of worship, which is what Moser means by god. (I Shall use the phrase 'the god' to denote a creator without the implication of moral perfection.)
Original languageEnglish
Pages622-625
Volume121
No.4
Specialist publicationPhilosophical Review
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Philosophy of Religion

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