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Contents
Preface
Introduction 1
PART I: THE ERRORSOF ATHEISM
1. Analyzing Atheism 29
2. The Errors of Atheism 513. Dawkins GodLESS Delusion 69
4. The New Agnosticism 87
PART II: GROUNDING GOD
5. Naturalizing Theism 101
6. Liberating Theism 148
7. Is Hybrid Minimalist Theism Plausible? 208
Conclusion 225
Bibliography 227
Index 243
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It takes a brave voice indeed, it is said, to question the assumptions on whicha common public discourse and its conception o a common reason andexperience are said to depend.
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We need not be orced to religion, against our reasonagainst what wereasonably believe about the worldto make sense o our lives.
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Part I
The Errors of Atheism
The man who wants to sow a ertile feld must frst clear the ground o brush,then cut out the erns and brambles with his sharp hook, so that the new
grain may grow abundantly.Boethius
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Chapter 1
Analyzing Atheism
Defnition is, thereore, essential here. But we need now to try to look at thelong amiliar words o standard defnitions with resh and oreign eyes, readyto notice any incongruities in the combination o the various elements thatare there combined.
Antony Flew1
In act, atheism is a rather elusive concept in the history o Westernthoughtmore something o which one has been accused than a mantle
proudly assumed.Steve Fuller2
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God transcends all concepts, statements, defnitions; but he is not separaterom the world and man; he is not outside all that is . . . God is, but he is notan existent, he is the hidden mystery o being; . . .
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Dawkins GodLESS Delusion
Heresies are systems that inherit all the claims o orthodoxy with only a parto its resources . . .. The truth is oten ugly or terrible, and almost always less simple andunqualifed than our love o eloquence would wish it to be.
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Most men preer to go through this world with their eyes openeven thoughit may be true that many o us pride ourselves on having them open whilethey remain really closed.
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There is something prooundly misanthropic in the belie that modernWestern science has shown all religious believers to be deluded savages atbest and immoral bigots at worst.
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