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Not Proven: A Dialogue on Knowing God

Not Proven: A Dialogue on Knowing God

Van Houte, Cornelis

Paperback

Series: Theology, Book 16

Atheism & AgnosticismReligion General

ISBN13: 9798199390910
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 31 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Two thousand years of arguing about God - and almost nobody stops to ask the question that comes first.
Not does God exist. But can the matter be known at all?

In the combination room of an old college, two formidable minds sit down to find out. Aldous Crane, Doctor of Divinity, speaks for belief - learned, generous, and unafraid of a hard question. Mara Vance, Doctor of Laws, cross-examines him as she would any witness, holding the existence of God to the standard a courtroom demands of everything else we claim to know: not sincerity, not feeling, but evidence that survives scrutiny.

What follows is not a shouting match. It is a trial - rigorous, civil, and merciless to weak arguments on both sides. Across eighteen chapters they test every great move in the case: who carries the burden of proof, the problem of evil, the projected God of Feuerbach and Freud, religious experience as testimony, Pascal's wager, and the uncomfortable accident of being born into one faith and not another. Each argument is given its strongest form. Every blow lands. Neither voice is ever a straw figure.

And the verdict, when it comes, is the one Scottish juries alone were once allowed to return: not proven.

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