Introduction: What Has Athens To Do With Jerusalem?
Chapter 1. When Religion First Trembled into Expression
Chapter 2. National Religions of the Ancients
Chapter 3. The Nature of the Western God
Chapter 4. An Array of Alternative Beliefs
Chapter 5. Classic Arguments For God’s Existence - And Their
Criticisms
Chapter 6. The Evidence of Common Sense
Chapter 7. If God is Good, Why Do People Suffer?
Chapter 8. Other Explanations That Have Been Proposed
Chapter 9. How Can Religious Claims Be Established?
Chapter 10. Famous Challenges to Faith
Chapter 11. The Stormy Relations between Science and Religion
Chapter 12. How Religion Relates to Society
Chapter 13. Immortality: A Diversity of Beliefs
Chapter 14. Religion Today - Its Multiple Forms
Burton F. Porter is professor of philosophy at Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts.
A one-stop shop for those who seek to be thoughtful about the
divine, The Great Perhaps provides a thorough discussion of the
central issues and problems of the spiritual thinker, exploring
them in a sympathetic manner without being blind to their
challenges. Unique in its global vision, the book relates
philosophical concerns to everyday common sense. The reader will
come away not merely with a history of the subject, but also with a
sense of its contemporary pressing issues, strengths, and
concerns.
*Andrew Pessin, Connecticut College, author of The God Question:
What Famous Thinkers from Plato to Dawkins Have Said about the
Divine*
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