God and the Multiverse: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion)

"This is a valuable collection of state-of-the-art essays on a timely topic. Each essay has material worth considering and each bibliography is a useful resource. I look forward to those working on the topics addressing some of the issues that newcomers may find to be barriers to entry to the philosophical and theological reflections contained in the book."--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"The overall quality of the essays in this volume is excellent. They all make interesting and unique contributions to the multiverse literature This vol

Peter D. McLoughlin said It was much more reasonable in terms of price as a rental .. I enjoyed the philosophical investigation of the impact of the idea of a mulitverse on theism.Worth the price of a rental.. The one star is not a reflection of the quality The one star is not a reflection of the quality of the content. Rather, it reflects the ridiculous pricing which would maintain the philosophical tradition in the West of philosophy being only for the elite and rich.. Want to read it, but publisher is too greedy! Some will chide me for giving a one-star rating not based on content, but I know of no other public way to express my huge dissatisfaction with the price of this book. I read a favorable review of this in Faith and Philosophy and would love to buy and read it, but the cost is extortionate. Routledg

Kraay is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Klaas J. He has published articles in such journals as Philosophical Studies, Erkenntnis, American Philosophical Quarterly, the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Religious Studi

Scientific, philosophical, and theological issues are considered.. This volume collects together twelve newly published essays – two by physicists, and ten by philosophers – that discuss various aspects of this issue. Moreover, these philosophers claim that the idea of a divinely created multiverse can help believers in God respond to certain arguments for atheism. The details and implications of these theories are hotly contested. These proposals are, of course, also extremely controversial. Some of the essays support the idea of a divinely created multiverse; others oppose it. Some philosophers argue that these scientific models count against the existence of God. In recent decades, scientific theories have postulated the existence of many universes beyond our own. Others, h