One of my joys in the early part of this summer has been catching up on some personal reading. Last week, I was able to finish reading Existential Reasons for Belief in God, by Clifford Williams (a philosopher at Trinity College in Illinois). Existential Reasons is an appeal to allow satisfaction of human needs to play a crucial role in the construction and justification of faith in God. Accordingly, Williams fits into a contemporary scene marked by the feeling that purely rational apologetics (e.g., theistic proofs, historical proofs for the resurrection and/or reliability of the New Testament) are insufficient (and unpersuasive). Following the jump, I offer a brief outline and summary of Williams' work, along with a few thoughts and constructive criticisms.
Clifford Williams, Existential Reasons for Belief in God: A
Defense of Desires & Emotions for Faith. Downers Grove, IL: IVP
Academic, 2011. 188 pp.
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