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Review: The Evidence for God by Paul Moser

Unsatisfied with natural theology and fideism, Paul Moser attempts to introduce a new kind of evidence for God, an evidence, “appropriate for the reality of a God worthy of worship” (20). Such evidence is personified in human agents as they are transformed by God. His argument is as follows: (1) Necessarily, if a human person is offered and receives the transformative gift, then this is the result of the authoritative power of the divine X of thoroughgoing forgiveness, fellowship in perfect love, worthiness of worship, and triumphant hope (namely, God). (2) I have been offered, and have willingly received, the transformative gift. (3) Therefore, God exits. (200) Revelation of the divine, according to Moser, would be appropriate to the kind of being God is. Consequentially, God would reveal himself “in human hearts rather than just to expand human reflection or information” (26). Moser calls this kind of theology, “kardiatheology,” a theology of the heart. Moser's questio...

More Than a Feeling

Francis Spufford, in a metaphor laden piece for the Guardian , defends his Christian faith against atheism on the basis of his feelings: "I assent to ideas because I have feelings; I don't have feelings because I've assented to the ideas." Spufford claims that no one can know if there is a god or not; God "isn't a knowable item." And so all he can go by is his feel of God.