Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267) and index

gPart 1.|tThe 'shape' of reason.|tClarifications and issues --|tNegative theology and natural theology --|tThe darkness of God and the light of Christ --|tIntellect --|tReason and rhetoric --|tThe 'shape' of reason --|gPart 2.|tUnivocity, 'difference, ' and 'onto-theology'. |tUnivocity and inference : Duns Scotus --|tGod, grammar, and difference --|tExistence and God --|gPart 3. |tInference and the existence of God.|tAnalogy and inference --|tWhy anything? --|tRefusing the question --|tThe God of reason and the God of Christ

"The proposition that the existence of God is demonstrable by rational argument is doubted by nearly all philosophical opinion today and is thought by most Christian theologians to be incompatible with Christian faith. This book argues that, on the contrary, there are reasons of faith why in principle the existence of God should be thought rationally demonstrable and that it is worthwhile revisiting the theology of Thomas Aquinas to see why this is so. The book further suggests that philosophical objections to proofs of God's existence rely upon an attenuated and impoverished conception of reason which theologians of all monotheistic traditions might wish to reject. Denys Turner proposes that on broader and deeper conception of it, human rationality is open to the 'sacramental shape' of creation as such and in its exercise of rational proof of God it in some way participates in that sacramentality of all things."--BOOK JACKET