God Is Great, God Is Good

2011 Outreach Magazine Book Award winner!

2010 Christianity Today Book Award winner!

The days have passed when the goodness of God—indeed, the reality of God itself—could reasonably be called a consensus opinion. God's reputation has come under considerable review in recent days, with some going so far as to say that it's not we who've made a mess of things. Instead whatever it is we call God is to blame.

But is such an opinion really a fair assessment? In this magisterial collection, the contemporary complaints against belief in God are addressed with intellectual passion and rigor by some of the most astute theological and philosophical minds of the day:

J. P. MorelandPaul MoserJohn PolkinghorneMichael BeheMichael J. MurrayAlister McGrathPaul CopanJerry WallsCharles TaliaferroScot McKnightGary HabermasMark MittelbergChad MeisterWilliam Lane Craig

Including an interview by Gary Habermas with noted convert to theism Antony Flew, and a direct critical response to Richard Dawkins's God Delusion by Alvin Plantinga, God Is Great, God Is Good offers convincing and compelling reassurance that though the world has changed, God has not.

Is there no heaven or hell, no God, no spiritual realm-just science?

That's the message a new generation of dynamic atheist thinkers are shouting from the rooftops, over the airwaves, in the bestseller lists and across cyberspace. They've created a flourishing worldwide, antireligious movement proclaiming that belief in God is not only false but dangerous.

Here is a book that answers this challenge with some of the finest thinkers in cosmology, astrophysics, biology, theology and philosophy.

William Lane Craig

J.P. Moreland

Paul K. Moser

John Polkinghorne

Michael J. Behe

Michael J. Murray

Chad Meister

Alister McGrath

Paul Copan

Jerry L. Walls

Charles Taliaferro

Scot McKnight

Gary R. Habermas

Mark Mittelberg

Including an interview by Gary Habermas with noted convert to theism Antony Flew, and a direct critical response to Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion by Alvin Plantinga, God Is Great, God Is Good offers convincing and compelling reassurance that though the world has changed, God remains both great and good.

William Lane Craig (Ph.D., philosophy, University of Birmingham; D.Theol., systematic theology, University of Munich) is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, in La Mirada, California. He is also president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.

He has published articles in philosophical and theological journals such as The Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Modern Theology and Religious Studies. He has written or cowritten more than twenty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology and God, Time and Eternity.

Chad Meister (Ph.D., Marquette University) is professor of philosophy at Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana.

He is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity, Introducing Philosophy of Religion, Reasons for Faith: Making a Case for the Christian Faith and The Philosophy of Religion Reader..