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Contents

Preface

Introduction 1

PART I: THE ERRORSOF ATHEISM

1. Analyzing Atheism 29

2. The Errors of Atheism 513. Dawkins GodLESS Delusion 69

4. The New Agnosticism 87

PART II: GROUNDING GOD

5. Naturalizing Theism 101

6. Liberating Theism 148

7. Is Hybrid Minimalist Theism Plausible? 208

Conclusion 225

Bibliography 227

Index 243


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It takes a brave voice indeed, it is said, to question the assumptions on whicha common public discourse and its conception o a common reason andexperience are said to depend.

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Chapter 3

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Heresies are systems that inherit all the claims o orthodoxy with only a parto its resources . . .. The truth is oten ugly or terrible, and almost always less simple andunqualifed than our love o eloquence would wish it to be.

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