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This short book is a lively dialogue between a religious believer and a skeptic. It covers all the main issues including different ideas of God, the good and bad in religion, religious experience and neuroscience, pain and suffering, death and life after death, and includes interesting autobiographical revelations.

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This book takes the form of a dialogue between philosopher of religion John Hick and someone anyone who is a religious skeptic or is somewhere between faith and doubt. Neither of them is dogmatic and their discussion is honest and fair. It covers a range of questions:
Is the pervasively skeptical character of today´s culture well founded or only an assumption?
Is the usual idea of God viable, and if not what is the alternative?
Can God´s existence be proved?
Is religious experience authentic, particularly in the light of modern neuroscience?
What about the contradictory beliefs of the different religions?
Can we have religion without transcendence, as advocate by the Sea of Faith movement?
Can there be a good God, or a friendly universe, when there is so much pain and suffering?
Can there be a life after death?
Between Faith and Doubt also includes some fascinating autobiographical revelations: of Hick´s evangelical conversion and subsequent development to much more liberal beliefs, of being involved in a heresy trial, of being in an earthquake, his own powerful religious experience, and witnessing a materializing séance. This short, briliantly written book is and accessible and concise way of understanding both Hick´s views, and quickly gaining a grasp of some of the central issues in philosophy of religion.
A frank discussion in dialogue form of the major issues between religious believers and non-believers from world renowned philosopher John Hick

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Preface Defining the Issue: Naturalism vs Religion Can God´s Existence be Proved? What Do We Mean By God? Religion Without Transcendence? Religious Experience Trusting Religious Experience Despite the Religious Contradictions? Neuroscience and Religious Experience More on Neuroscience Implications for Christianity Implications for Islam The Religions: Good or Bad? Suffering and Wickedness Life After Death? Cosmic Optimism Index

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World-renowned philosopher of religion JOHN HICK was the author of numerous books which were translated into sixteen languages. He taught in Britain and the United States and lectured in many countries. His Gifford Lectures, An Interpretation of Religion, received the Grawemeyer Award for new religious thinking.

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