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God and Goodness

A Natural Theological Perspective

By: Mark Wynn

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Published: 20th October 1999
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"God and Goodness" takes the experience of value as a starting point for natural theology. Mark Wynn argues that theism offers our best understanding of the goodness of the world, especially its beauty and openness to the development of richer and more complex material forms. We also see that the world's goodness calls for a moral response: commitment to the goodness of the world represents a natural extension of the trust to which we aspire in our dealings with human beings.

"This is a clearly written and well informed book... I recommend it as a very thoughtful and helpful exploration, "dialectical" in the Aristotelian sense."
-Lawrence Dewan, "The Review of Metaphysics
"This is a most attractive as well as quite persuasive book."
-"Heythrop Journal
"A vast amount of research from a wide range of disciplines is surveyed in this book, which by itself makes it worthwhile."
-Barry Harvey, Religious Studies Review
"This book offers a sophisticated version of the design argument for God's existence... is full of interesting ideas and arguments... It offers a fresh look at a familiar kind of argument."
-"International Philosophical Quarterly
"Mark Wynn's "God and Goodnesspresents the case for God's existence in a refreshingly original way. This book needs to be taken seriously by both friends and opponents of theism."
-William Hasker, Huntington College

Preface
Introduction
The goodness of the world as its reason for existence
Some approaches to the rationality of religious belief Two objections to natural theology
The goodness of the world as its reason for existence
Providence and Beauty
The argument from design Tennant's argument Human responses to Tennant
The sociobiological critique
Conclusions
The world as a source of value Introduction Swinburne's argument from consciousness
Haldane's argument from concept use
The world as a generator of value
Conclusions
Disvalues and the goodness of the world
Providence and evil Introduction
How good is good enough?
An example of the integral whole approach Divine inscrutability and divine power Some applications
Conclusions
Theodicy in an ecological mode Introduction
Towards an ecological theodicy
Failing to see the value of the world
Conclusions
Moral Commitment to the goodness of the world
A non-epistemic case for trusting in the goodness of the world Introduction
A moral, communitarian case for religious belief
Relationship to God as a trust relationship
Conclusions
The goodness of the world and the concept of God
Worship and the concept of God Introduction
The religious adequacy of the individualistic model
The anthropoligical basis of the proposal
Conclusions
Salvation and the concept of God Introduction
The world's resemblance to God
A Teilhardian account
A final approach: the relation of neccessary complement
Conclusions
Conclusion Between Cleanthes and Demea Re-enchanting the world
Bibliography
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ISBN: 9780415199155
ISBN-10: 0415199158
Series: Routledge Series in Philosophy of Religion
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 20th October 1999
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 13.8  x 2.3
Weight (kg): 0.4