Naturalism is what we could call a worldview, a sort of total way of looking at ourselves and our world. It isn’t clearly a religion: ... » Go

God has created the world, but he also sustains it in existence; without this sustenance, the world would disappear like a candle flame in a ... » Go

According to classical theistic belief — classical Muslim and Jewish as well as Christian belief — first of all there is God, the chief being ... » Go

Since we have been cobbled together by (unguided) evolution, it is unlikely, he thinks, that our view of the world is overall accurate; natural selection is interested ... » Go

Christian belief is produced by a cognitive process (the “internal instigation of the Holy Spirit” [in Aquinas’ words] or the “internal testimony of the Holy ... » Go

[T]here is something wholly self-defeating, so it seems to me, in [John] Hick’s posture. If we take [his] position, then we can’t say, for example, ... » Go

In God and Other Minds, I argued first that the theistic proofs or arguments do not succeed. In evaluating these arguments I employed a traditional ... » Go

[I]s this posture in fact possible for a human being: can a person accept it, and accept it authentically, without bad faith or doublethink? I ... » Go

[A] theologian who does not believe in God is like a mountaineer for whom it is an open question whether there are any mountains or ... » Go

Is [Christian] belief intellectually acceptable? In particular, is it intellectually acceptable for us, now; For educated and intelligent people in the twenty-first century, with all ... » Go

Classical Christian belief includes, in the first place, the belief that there is such a person as God. God is That person, that is, a ... » Go

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life ... » Go