God on Trial: Testing for the Divine
About this ebook
Part of being human is testing the divine, Moser asserts--putting God on trial, so to speak, to see if our faith in life and in God is really justified. In the end, the author finds that we are in fact conscious of the goodness of existence, and the proof of God's morality lies in "righteousness among humans", people's ability to cultivate virtue in and among themselves. Human testing is invited by God so long as we use the standard of goodness/righteousness suited to a God worthy of worship. The book advances this neglected truth. In other words, God is always seeking to show us God's goodness, and our own goodness is itself a vindication of God's.
About the author
Paul K. Moser is professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of numerous works in the philosophy of religion, among them God in Moral Experience; Paul's Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice; Divine Guidance; The Divine Goodness of Jesus; Understanding Religious Experience; The God Relationship; The Elusive God (winner of a national book award from the Jesuit Honor Society); The Evidence for God; The Severity of God; Knowledge and Evidence; and Philosophy after Objectivity. He was chairperson of the Loyola Chicago Philosophy Department for over fifteen years, and he is a past editor of American Philosophical Quarterly.
