Authors: Kelly James Clark
ISBN-13: 9780802804563, ISBN-10: 080280456X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Date Published: March 1990
Edition: (Non-applicable)
A penetrating critique of the Enlightenment assumption of evidentialism—that belief in God requires the support of evidence or arguments to be rational. Garnering arguments from C. S. Lewis, Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Thomas Reid, William James, and John Calvin, Clark asserts that this Enlightenment demand for evidence is itself both irrelevant and irrational.
I. THE WAY OF ARGUMENT
ONE: PROVING GOD'S EXISTENCE: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
TWO: GOD AND EVIL
II. THE WAY OF REASON
THREE: THE IRRELEVANCE OF EVIDENTIALISM: GOD—HYPOTHESIS OR PERSON?
FOUR: RETURN TO REASON: THE IRRATIONALITY OF EVIDENTIALISM