In the past couple weeks, I have done several interviews and received some quite constructive (and mostly positive) feedback on my eBook How to Think About God. This has encouraged me to finish the larger project.
Here is one on Classical Theism. Here is one with Matt Fradd. Here is one with Gary Michuta. Here is one with Catholic Answers. And here is one with Mike Mathews.
My hope with this little eBook is simply to provide a philosophical case for classical theism. As I mention in the preface, this eBook is not about religion, though the conclusion may pave the way to considering religious questions. If so, great. But I have nothing to say about Christianity or Judaism, etc, in this eBook. It is a work of armchair philosophy alone and sets revelation aside.
Because of this, people may (though they haven’t yet) accuse me of leaving out what is most important, but I have my reasons for this, many of them experiential. Coming from a skeptical background, I can tell you that any initial mention of revelation in a philosophical treatise would have been immediately off putting to me; and perhaps unjustifiably so. Either way, I know my prior attitude is not uncommon these days, so I wanted to remove any potential barriers to entry in this discussion about God, and hopefully avoid activating any negative pre-conceptions people may hold that are not immediately germane to the topic at hand.
I am a Christian, of course; and, in fact, a Catholic. So ultimately, I would say the most important part of the spiritual journey is giving your life to God and Christ, but this journey for many people comes in stages; often a series of staggers and leaps. I was a broad theist before I became a Christian; and I was a Mere Christian before I became Catholic. So, in this eBook, I am simply trying to meet people where they’re at and help them take the first step up a rather large and beautiful flight of stairs.