Questions about God

From young children with their guileless searching questions to the recently bereaved trying to make sense of tragic loss humans wrestle with our relationship to God--and with God''s essence motivations and power--throughout our lives: Why does God permit catastrophe and senseless tragedy again and again? Is God''s power limited in any way? Can He change the past? Does He know the future? Why does God require prayer? Why does He not provide stronger evidence of His presence? Whom does God consign to hell and why? Does God change? Suffer? What can we make of the conflicting diversity within world religions of the many gods of different religious traditions? Such questions engage confront and perplex us on a daily basis. In this rich concise volume leading philosophers who have long pondered God''s nature and ways take on these core problems and present their findings in a manner likely to engage believer and non-believer general reader and specialist alike.