Contents:

I. Faith and reason

Introduction

A child learns to talk about God

The necessity for reasoning toward God

II. There is an uncaused entity

Provisional statement of the argument

Development of the argument

III. Criticism of alternatives

The empiricist alternative

Criticism of empiricism

The alternative of a critique of knowledge

Criticism of critique as metaphysics

The absolute idealist alternative

Criticism of absolute idealism

Relativism as a metaphysical alternative

Criticism of metaphysical relativism

IV. The meaningfulness of God-talk

Limits of reductionism

What the uncaused entity is not

What can be affirmed of the uncausd entity

Relational predications about the uncaused entity

V. Existential objections to God

Human freedom is compatible with creatureliness

Evil is real but is not created

Religion need not conflict with humanistic values

Developing creatures and a perfect creator

VI. The meaningfulness of Christian beliefs

Miracles as signals from the creator

The human person and the human community

Meaning, revelation, and Christian mysteries

Why Christian doctrine if true, is important