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The Non-Existence of God by Nicholas Everitt is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Cover 1 Title Page 5 Copyright 6 Contents 9 Preface 15 1. Reasoning about God 17 The central role of the existence of God 17 The need to appeal to reason 18 The claim that it is wrong to appeal to reason 19 The claim that there are no relevant reasons 23 The claim that reasons are inconclusive 24 Whether someone has good reasons v. whether there are good reasons 26 Theism (and its more specific varieties), atheism, agnosticism 30 How the term ‘God’ is to be understood 30 Further reading 32 2. Reformed Epistemology 33 Introduction 33 Classical foundationalism 34 Plantinga’s attack on classical foundationalism 36 The alternative view proposed by Reformed Epistemology 38 Assessment 42 Further reading 46 3. Ontological arguments 47 Introduction 47 Anselm’s version 48 Descartes and the ontological argument 53 Plantinga and the ontological argument 57 The Malcolm/Anselm version 61 Hartshorne’s version 63 Where ontological arguments go wrong 66 Can the ontological argument survive? 71 Further reading 73 4. Cosmological arguments 75 Introduction 75 The First Cause argument 76 Clarifying the concept of infinity 76 Can there be an infinity of past events? 79 Can there be an infinity of past

Author
Nicholas Everitt
Language
EN
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Updated
2026-03-14

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