"This is the best kind of book: intellectually serious, lucid, and covering a topic of great importance and perennial interest. Levering's interlocutors range in date from the second century to the twentieth, and he is a judicious and lively interpreter of them. For a reliable depiction of the Christian enterprise of thinking about reason and the question of God's existence, this is the book to read."  
\--__Paul J. Griffiths__, author of Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar   
"A splendid survey; ideal for students and for the intellectually curious of every vocation. Levering fits an enormous range of information in a small space without any sacrifice of detail or clarity."  
\--__David Bentley Hart__, author of The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss  
  
"Levering's work is a careful, scholarly treatment of the history of attempts to argue for and against the existence of God. Levering recognizes the limits of such arguments and understands that they do not provide the kind of knowledge of God that Christian faith considers necessary for true relation to God. Nevertheless, he defends the value of such arguments as pointing to a mystery and majesty that requires Christian revelation to fully understand. The book is especially good in retrieving the contributions of patristic and medieval thinkers and gives a helpful account of the work of more recent thinkers, such as Maurice Blondel, Pierre Rousselot, and Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, who are often ignored in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy."  
\--__C. Stephen Evans__, Baylor University  
  
"Matthew Levering's panoramic, well-documented Proofs of God is a wonderfully insightful and wisely argued defense of theistic proofs. Whether or not one fully embraces the arguments for classical theism, this philosophical and theological survey of the natural theological terrain from antiquity to the present is a truly impressive work on the most important topic of all--the existence of the God in whom we live, and move, and have our being and the One with whom we have to do."  
\--__Paul Copan__, Palm Beach Atlantic University

__Matthew Levering__ (PhD, Boston College) is the James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary, University of Saint Mary of the Lake, in Mundelein, Illinois. He previously taught at the University of Dayton. Levering is the author of numerous books, including The Theology of Augustine, Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation, and Ezra &amp; Nehemiah in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible series.

Leading theologian Matthew Levering presents a thoroughgoing critical survey of the proofs of God's existence for readers interested in traditional Christian responses to the problem of atheism. Beginning with Tertullian and ending with Karl Barth, Levering covers twenty-one theologians and philosophers from the early church to the modern period, examining how they answered the critics of their day. He also shows the relevance of the classical arguments to contemporary debates and challenges to Christianity. In addition to students, this book will appeal to readers of apologetics.

A leading theologian offers a historical survey of the proofs of God's existence for readers interested in traditional Christian responses to the problem of atheism.

__Contents__   
Introduction  
__1. Patristic and Medieval Arguments for God's Existence__ Tertullian  
Gregory of Nazianzus  
Augustine  
John of Damascus  
Anselm  
Thomas Aquinas  
William of Ockham __2. Reformation and Enlightenment Views__ John Calvin  
Michel de Montaigne  
Francisco Suárez  
René Descartes  
Blaise Pascal  
David Hume  
Immanuel Kant __3. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Responses__ John Henry Newman  
Maurice Blondel  
Pierre Rousselot  
Ludwig Wittgenstein  
Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange  
Martin Heidegger  
Karl Barth Conclusion

\["For students and readers of Christian apologetics", "Addresses doubts about God's existence and atheism", "You will strengthen your faith with thoughtful insights"\]

Explore the compelling arguments for God's existence with Matthew Levering's insightful book.

Levering, Matthew

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Title Page

Copyright Page

Endorsements

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Patristic and Medieval Arguments for God's Existence

2. Reformation and Enlightenment Views

3. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Responses

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Subject Index

Name Index

Back Cover

A critical survey of classical arguments for God's existence, from Tertullian to Barth. Ideal for students and apologetics readers exploring traditional Christian responses.

\["For students and readers of Christian apologetics", "Addresses doubts about God's existence and atheism", "You will strengthen your faith with classic arguments"\]

This book explores historical proofs of God's existence.

Classical Arguments from Tertullian to Barth

Proofs of God

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