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The Kalām Cosmological Argument : Philosophical Arguments for the Finitude of the Past by Paul Copan; William Lane Craig is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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Did the universe begin to exist? If so, did it have a cause? Or could it have come into existence uncaused, from nothing? These questions are taken up by the medieval-though recently-revived-kalam cosmological argument, which has arguably been the most discussed philosophical argument for God's existence in recent decades. The kalam's line of reasoning maintains that the series of past events cannot be infinite but rather is finite. Since the universe could not have come into being uncaused, the
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- Author
- Paul Copan; William Lane Craig
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501330803
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Islam, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
- The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Volume 2 : Scientific Evidence for the Beginning of the Universe (2018)
- The Kalām Cosmological Argument: Philosophical Arguments for the Finitude of the Past 1 (2018)
- The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Volume 2: Scientific Evidence for the Beginning of the Universe (Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion, 2) (2017)
- The Kalām Cosmological Argument: Scientific Evidence for the Beginning of the Universe 2 (2018)
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