The God Relationship The Ethics for Inquiry about the Divine

In this book, Paul K. Moser proposes a new approach to inquiry about God, including a new discipline of the ethics for inquiry about God. It is an ethics for human attitudes and relationships as well as actions in inquiry, and it includes human responsibility for seeking evidence that involves a moral priority for humans. Such ethics includes an ongoing test, a trial, for human receptivity to goodness, including morally good relationships, as a priority in human inquiry and life. Moser also defends an approach to the evidence for God that makes sense of the elusiveness and occasional absence of God in human experience. His book will be of interest to those interested in inquiry about God, with special relevance to scholars and advanced students in religious studies, philosophy, theology, and biblical studies.

1. The God relationship: basics and plans; 2. The God relationship and faith; 3. The God relationship and evidence; 4. The God relationship, wisdom, and meaning; 5. The God relationship, koinonia, and defense.

Paul K. Moser is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago. He is the author of The Elusive God (Cambridge, 2009 and winner of a national book award from the Jesuit Honor Society), The Evidence for God (Cambridge, 2010), The Severity of God (Cambridge, 2013), Knowledge and Evidence (Cambridge, 1989), and Philosophy after Objectivity (1997), co-author of Theory of Knowledge (1997), editor of Jesus and Philosophy (Cambridge, 2008) and The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology (2002), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil (with Chad Meister, Cambridge, 2017) and The Wisdom of the Christian Faith (Cambridge, 2013). He is the co-editor of the book series Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society.