It also offers a thorough treatment of each of the key divine attributesโunity, simplicity, eternity, omnipotence, omniscience, perfect goodness, and so forthโshowing that they must be possessed by the God whose existence is demonstrated by the proofs. Finally, it answers at length all of the objections that have been leveled against these proofs.
This work provides as ambitious and complete a defense of traditional natural theology as is currently in print. Its aim is to vindicate the view of the greatest philosophers of the pastโ thinkers like Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Leibniz, and many othersโ that the existence of God can be established with certainty by way of purely rational arguments. It thereby serves as a refutation both of atheism and of the fideism that gives aid and comfort to atheism.
Edward Feser, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. Called ย by ย National Review "one of the best contemporary writers ย on philosophy", he is the author of ย The Last Superstition: ย A Refutation of the New Atheism, Aquinas, Scholastic Meta- physics, By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed, and many other ย books and articles.