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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Focusing the Question | |
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| The Recurring Debate: Does God Exist? | |
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| God versus Science: The Dawkins/Collins Debate | |
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| Does God Exist? Was There a Time when the Question Did Not Arise? | |
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| Mythos and Logos | |
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| Questioning the Questions | |
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| From the Classroom: Student Questions and Responses | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Questioning the Philosophy of Religion | |
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| Questioning Assumptions about Religious Belief | |
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| Believing Is the Focal Act of Faith | |
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| Not All Religions Are Belief-Focused | |
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| Even Religions That See to Be Belief-Focused May Not Be as Much as They Seem | |
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| Assuming That Faith Is Belief-Focused Narrows Our Vision | |
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| Believing Is Not an Intentional Activity | |
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| Believing Is Too Cognitive and Too Logo-Centric to Be the Focal Act of Faith | |
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| Many Serious Thinkers Have Suggested Other Things as Being Religiously Focal | |
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| The Term Believe Is Not Univocal | |
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| From the Classroom: Student Questions and Responses | |
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| Questions for Critical Reflection | |
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| Questioning Assumptions about God's Existence | |
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| The Basic Religious Question Is about the Existence of God | |
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| God Is Not a Thing That May or May Not Exist | |
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| Does God Exist? Being Fooled by a Misdirected Question | |
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| Does God Exist? Being Fooled by Grammar | |
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| Does X Exist? The Temptation of the Question | |
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| From the Classroom: Student Questions and Responses | |
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| Questions for Critical Reflection | |
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| Questioning Assumptions about Religious Language | |
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| Religious Language Is Primarily Referential | |
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| Referential and Nonreferential Meaning | |
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| My Son's Atheism | |
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| How Is God-Language Used? | |
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| From the Classroom: Student Questions and Responses | |
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| Questions for Critical Reflection | |
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| Rethinking the Philosophy of Religion | |
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| Rethinking Religious Faith | |
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| Religion as a Way of Seeing | |
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| Religious Language as Parable? | |
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| Poetry: A Prerequisite for Faith? | |
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| Faith and Imagination | |
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| Religious Faith: An Imagination-Shaped Way of Seeing | |
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| Some Prejudices against Imagination | |
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| The Power of Imagination: Some Testimonials | |
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| Religious Imagination | |
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| Religious Faith as Experiencing-As | |
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| A Critical View and a Response | |
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| A Theory of Religious Discourse | |
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| From the Classroom: Student Questions and Responses | |
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| Questions for Critical Reflection | |
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| Rethinking the Rationality of Faith | |
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| The Question of the Rationality of Faith | |
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| Newton's Scientific Achievement Revisited | |
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| The Democratic Achievement Revisited | |
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| The Pragmatic Examination of Religion: James, Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud | |
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| Some Problems with the Pragmatic Critique | |
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| Preliminary Conclusions | |
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| Fruitfulness as a Criterion? | |
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| Faith and the Fulfillment of the Human | |
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| Is Religious Faith Rational? One More Time Around | |
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| Some Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Some Implications | |
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| From the Classroom: Student Questions and Responses | |
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| Questions for Critical Reflection | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Annotated Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Index | |