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1 R. Dawkins, The God Delusion (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006), 31, 106.
2 Scripture quotations are from the Holman Christian Standard Bible.
3 See C. Taliaferro and S. Goetz, “The Prospects for Christian Materialism,” Christian Scholar's Review 37/3 (2008): 303–21.
4 M. Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 13.
5 J. Narveson, “God by Design?” in God and Design: the Teleological Argument and Modern Science, ed. N. A. Manson (London: Routledge, 2003), 93–94.
6 M. Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1996), 45.
7 See S. T. Davis, Christian Philosophical Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
8 A. Kenny, The God of the Philosophers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), 38–39.
9 B. Leftow, Time and Eternity (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), 117.
10 In an effort to emphasize the divine interaction with the creation, some thinkers have adopted the view of process philosophy or panentheism.
11 P. Donovan, Interpreting Religious Experience (New York: Seabury, 1979), 81.
12 We are grateful to Ms. Elizabeth Clark for criticism on an earlier version of this chapter and to Tiepolo for his faithful companionship.