University Press of America, 1987 (copyright held by author)

by Nicholas F. Gier, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Idaho

Ph.D. in philosophical theology at the Claremont Graduate University

Coordinator of Religious Studies from 1980-2003

Note: Revision in progress; some chapters not yet inserted in text

Chapter One: Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, and Rationalists

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Chapter Two: The Temptation of Belief

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Chapter Four: God, Freedom, and Evil

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Chapter Seven: “Historical” Theology

Chapter Eight: Jesus: Gospel Evidence and Jewish Expectations

Chapter  Eleven: Abortion, Persons, and the Fetus

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Chapter Thirteen: The Three-Story Universe

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Chapter Fourteen: Creationism: Bad Science; Wrong Religion

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