Between Faith and Doubt: Dialogues on Religion and Reason

This book takes the form of a dialogue between the philosopher of religion John Hick and someone - anyone - who is a religious sceptic 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, including:

Can God's existence be proved?

Is religious experience authentic, particularly in the light of modern neuroscience?

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 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.

JOHN HICK is a world-renowned philosopher of religion. He is the author of numerous books, translated into sixteen languages. He has 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.