Part 1 The existence and nature of God: the study of God - natural theology, revealed theology, the idea of God in Christian theology, the truths of revelation, a new understanding of revelation, faith, the attributes of God, other divine attributes; arguments for God's existence - Anselm - the ontological argument, criticisms of the ontological argument, the cosmological argument, the five ways of St Thomas Aquinas, the cosmological argument - other thinkers, the teleological argument, the Enlightenment critique of natural theology, the moral argument for God's existence, Kant's moral argument, updating the arguments, the cumulative case argument. Part 2 God and science: the growing influence of science - the Medieval world view, Copernicus and Galileo, Isaac Newton (1642-1727), implications for natural theology; the challenge of modern science - the theory of evolution, evolution and the Bible, reactions to Darwin, positive responses to evolution, the challenge of cosmology, the science of history, negative responses to modern science; science and religion - can they be reconciled? - some preliminary issues - different causalities, the responses of modern theologians, differing perspectives, changes in the scientific landscape - quantum physics, advances in science - what theology has learned, theology since evolution. Part 3 God and experience: religious experience - direct and indirect - conversion experiences, mystical experience, assessment of religious experience, problems of religious experience, indirect religious experience, miracles; interpreting experience - theism or atheism - F.D.E. Schleiermacher (1768-1834), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), the influence of Feuerbach; the problem of evil - the Augustinian theodicy, the Irenaean theodicy, New Testament theodicy, the choice - faith or atheism, a summary of the problem. Part 4 God and language: speaking about God - the way of analogy, symbolic language, myth, justifying religious language; the challenge of logical positivism - verification and falsification, responses to logical positivism, the roots of religious language - the mystical, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), religion as cognitive; new ideas of God - Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976), John Macquarrie, Paul Tillich (1896-1965), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), Don Cupitt, process theology.
