Writing as doubts about revelation were giving way to doubts about God himself, Cocker sets out to defend the personality and providence of God on philosophical grounds. Chapters treat God as Creator, the beginning and history of creation, God’s continuing relation to the world, providence in human history, special providence and prayer, and the moral government of the universe.
A document of nineteenth-century philosophical theism answering the materialism of its day, for readers of the science-and-religion debates. Download the free EPUB.