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Reasoning about God is a book for college students about philosophy of reli-gion. Chapters begin with a passage from a fctional student, who raises intellectual problems against God; my analysis follows. This debate structure well presents the clash of ideas, gets students involved in the issues, and encourages critical thinking (since students are pushed to fnd faws in the ideas). I followed this structure successfully in my ethics textbook (Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction), which is in three editions and has been trans¬lated fve times into other languages. This structure works well in religion, even better than in ethics.
Here are some of the book’s virtues:
• The writing is clear and concise and makes difcult issues easy to understand.
• The book makes a strong case for belief in God, based on various fac-tors – including arguments about fne-tuning, Kalam, and near-death experiences – and approaches that are more instinctual or emotional. A major theme of the book is “There are many paths to God.”
• While there is much on traditional topics of philosophy of religion (like the problem of evil), there is also much on other related topics of interest (like whether religion is harmful, life after death, the variety of world religions, and the meaning of life).
• There is much on science and how it connects to God’s existence. I argue that recent science is friendlier toward religion than older science.
• While I’m Christian, my defense of belief in God works with other theistic traditions, too (like Islam and Judaism).