Abstract

For the past decade and a half, Robert Adams has been making some of the most original and important contributions to the contemporary philosophical literature on religious belief. This book brings together fourteen of his previously published articles, with updated notes, and presents with them two new, previously unpublished pieces. It will be found useful by specialists as well as by students of philosophical theology. The clarity, technical command, insightful creativity, and even wisdom to be found in these essays will surely aid in stimulating important future contributions to the field. Some of the papers brought together here are meant by the author to contribute to a cumulative case for the existence of God. In an illuminating introduction, Adams expresses his view that "theistic belief makes possible certain attractive positions in such fields as ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind". Other papers explore from within the lineaments of the religious consciousness.