Section
One: Arguments in Support of God's Existence
Chapter One: The
Relationship Between Faith and Reason (five pages)
Chapter Two: The
Cosmological Argument (ten pages)
Chapter Three: The
Teleological Argument (ten pages)
Chapter Four: The
Conceptualist Argument (five pages)
Chapter Five: The
Ontological Argument (five pages)
Chapter Six: The Argument
from Desire (five pages)
Section
Two: Answering Atheism
Chapter Seven: Miscellaneous
Arguments (five pages)
Chapter Eight: The Argument
from Divine Hiddenness (five pages)
Chapter Nine: The Argument
from Suffering (ten pages)
Section
Three: Conclusion
Chapter Ten: A Cumulative
Case for God's Existence (five pages)
Total
pages: sixty-five
As I've said before, this is just an introductory text, which is why the chapters are so concise. With that being said, I feel I'm doing an adequate job presenting the arguments and defending them from the most common objections.
As of today, chapters two, three and four are complete. In the next two days, I'll be tackling the ontological argument and the argument from desire. Afterwards, I'll jump back to chapter one before critiquing the atheistic arguments. My hope is to write one chapter every day. Proof-reading and some polishing of the arguments will follow, but I hope to get this published relatively soon.
Cool, are you going to include some type of "Further Reading" section?
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought that far ahead. I will be adding footnotes to the arguments, where readers can find more thorough defenses of the arguments. Good idea, though.
ReplyDeleteIt would be hilarious if you changed the name of your book to "The Happy Theist" in response to this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.amazon.com/The-Happy-Atheist-PZ-Myers/dp/0307379345
Anyways, good luck and Happy Holidays.
Haha! I do have an outline for a second book entitled, "I Think, Therefore I'm Catholic." I hope my Protestant friends take that in good humor. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Holidays to you, as well!