This is the 2nd Edition of an epochal treatise in rationalistic theism. The 1st Edition is extremely rare, having been printed in hardbound by Moody Press in 1957 in a printing of only 2,000. Unfortunately, the plates were destroyed. The bottom line of this book is to show how to self-referentially analyze statements to eliminate the possibility of opposing views, and to prove the impossibility of an actually infinite temporal sequence or an actually infinite set of discrete extra-mental objects. Hence, believing that God exists is the end of a long metatheoretic journey, an intellectual cul-de-sac from which there is no logical escape, only a chosen one. Analyzing statements that refer to themselves dominates the entire work, even in relation to self-referential analysis itself and the prior structures of conceptionalization. ~ Rick James @ Amazon.com

Table of Contents

• • Introduction 19
  • Analytical Table of Contents 25
• Part I Rational Empiricism as a Basis for Christian Apologetics
  • Chapter I The Meaning of Rational Empiricism 37
  • Chapter II Positive Defense of the Synthetic A Priori Nature of the Categorical Structure 56
  • Chapter III An Answer to Objections Against Rational Empiricism 67
  • Chapter IV Corollaries of Rational Empiricism 95
• Part II An Evaluation of Alternative Positions
  • Chapter I The Empirical Approach 117
  • Chapter II The Pragmatic Approach 146
  • Chapter III The Approach of Voluntaristic Rationalism: Presuppositionalism 154
• Part III Natural Theology and the Existence of God
  • Section A The Theistic Argument from Natural Revelation
  • Chapter I The Classification of the Arguments 179
  • Chapter II The Ontological Argument: or the Argument from the Idea of Absolute Existence 184
  • Chapter III The Cosmological Argument: the Argument from the Fact of Particular Existence 194
  • Chapter IV The Teleological Argument: the Argument from the Nature of Total Existence 204
  • Section B An Answer to Objections Against the Theistic Arguments
  • Chapter I The Transcendental Argument of Mysticism 245
  • Chapter II The Expansive-Limiting Argument of Presuppositionalism 250
  • Chapter III The Reductive Argument of Immanuel Kant 261
  • Chapter IV The Destructive Argument of Critical Naturalism 278
  • Conclusion 365
  • Bibliography 367
  • Index 373