Does God Exist?: An Answer for Today

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Does God exist? The question implies another: Who is God? This book is meant to give an answer to both questions and to give reasons for this answer. Does God exist? Yes or no? Many are at a loss between belief and unbelief; they are undecided, skeptical. They are doubtful about their belief, but they are also doubtful about their doubting. There are still others who are proud of their doubting. Yet there remains a longing for certainty. Certainty? Whether Christians or Jews, believers in God or atheists, the ...
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Does God exist? The question implies another: Who is God? This book is meant to give an answer to both questions and to give reasons for this answer. Does God exist? Yes or no? Many are at a loss between belief and unbelief; they are undecided, skeptical. They are doubtful about their belief, but they are also doubtful about their doubting. There are still others who are proud of their doubting. Yet there remains a longing for certainty. Certainty? Whether Christians or Jews, believers in God or atheists, the discussion today runs right across old denominations and new ideologies - but the longing for certainty is unquenched. Does God exist? We are putting all our cards on the table here. The answer will be "Yes, God exists," As human beings in the twentieth century, we certainly can reasonably believe in God - even more so in the Christian God - and perhaps even more easily today than a few decades or centuries ago. For, after so many crises, it is surprising how much has been clarified and how many difficulties in regard to belief in God have melted into the Light that no darkness has overcome.
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Richard P. McBrien
Perhaps more than any other of his books, ''Does God Exist?'' challenges the preconceptions of uncritical defenders and uncritical opponents alike. It is a work at once conservative in its faith and substantive in its scholarship. . . . ''Does God Exist?'' demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that Father Kung is a serious and sophisticated theologian, not simply a popularizer or polemicist. . . . Unsuspecting readers, attracted by the author's reputation for clear thinking and common sense, may stumble over some of the prose. . . . ''Does God Exist?'' is a major work by a major theologian. It deserves a wide and fair reading. -- New York Times
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780385135924
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 9/1/1980
  • Pages: 864

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
The aim of this book
A Reason or Faith? 1
I I think; do I therefore exist? 3
1 The ideal of mathematical certainty 3
2 The fundamental certainty of reason 11
3 Reason as basis of faith? 15
4 Shattered unity 26
II I believe; do I therefore exist? 42
1 The relativity of mathematical certainty 42
2 The fundamental certainty of faith 51
3 Faith as the basis of reason 59
4 Tracks of atheism 81
III Against rationalism for rationality 93
1 The epistemological discussion 93
2 Interim results I: Theses on modern rationality 115
B The New Understanding of God 127
I God in the world 129
1 From deism to panentheism 129
2 Atheism? 137
II God in history 144
1 Phenomenology of spirit 144
2 System in history 150
III Secular and historical God 162
1 The irremovable difference 162
2 God in coming to be 169
3 Interim results II: Theses on the secularity and historicity of God 181
C The Challenge of Atheism 189
I God - a projection of man? 191
1 Anthropological atheism 192
2 Critique of Feuerbach 204
3 Critique of the critique 210
II God - a consolation serving vested interests? 217
1 Sociopolitical atheism 217
2 Critique of Marx 241
3 Critique of the critique 252
III God - an infantile illusion? 262
1 Psychoanalytic atheism 263
2 Critique of Freud 288
3 Critique of the critique 307
4 Interim results III: Theses on atheism 323
D Nihilism - Consequence of Atheism 341
I The rise of nihilism 343
1 Critique of culture 343
2 The counterreligion 369
3 What is nihilism? 380
II Conquest of nihilism? 398
1 Critique of Nietzsche 399
2 What Christians can learn 405
3 What non-Christians can learn 410
4 Interim results IV: Theses on nihilism 415
E Yes to Reality - Alternative to Nihilism 425
I The basic attitude 427
1 Clarifications 427
2 Reaction to reality 432
II Fundamental mistrust or fundamental trust? 442
1 Confrontation 442
2 Concretion 453
3 Explication 460
F Yes to God - Alternative to Atheism 479
I Multidimensional man 481
1 Transcendence? 481
2 The other dimension 489
II Theological discussions 509
1 Catholic or Protestant approach? 509
2 Controversy on natural theology 518
III Proving God? 529
1 Arguments for and against 529
2 More than pure reason 536
IV God exists 552
1 Introduction 552
2 God as hypothesis 561
3 God as reality 568
4 Consequences 576
G Yes to the Christian God 585
I The God of the non-Christian religions 587
1 The many names of the one God 587
2 The two main types of religious experience 603
II The God of the Bible 613
1 The living God 613
2 God and his world 627
III The God of Jesus Christ 667
1 God as Father 667
2 God through Jesus Christ 677
3 God in the Spirit 696
Notes 703
Index of Names 797
Index 813
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