John Cottingham

One: Belief and its Benefits \ 1. How believing affects living \ 2. How believing works \ 3. Belief and human sensibilities \ 4. Belief and integrity \ Two: Belief, Reason, Goodness \ 1. Yearnings and their objective correlative \ 2. From benefits to reasons \ 3. God as source \ 4. The best explanation? \ Three: Belief and the Unknown \ 1. The unknown God? \ 2. Hume's critique \ 3. The problems of transcendence \ 4. Revelation and the Incarnate Word \ Four: Obstacles to Belief \ 1. How difficult can it get? \ 2. Supernatural intervention \ 3. Back to fundamentalism? \ 4. Revelation and cognition \ Five: Belief and Meaning \ 1. Truth and concealment \ 2. Evidence and accessibility \ 3. Vision and transformation \ 4. Moral growth and spiritual conversion \ Six: Learning to Believe \ 1. The lessons of life \ 2. Prevailing images of belief: exclusivism \ 3. Ultimate responsibility \ 4. Souls and the afterlife \ Seven: Believing and living \ 1. Providence and suffering \ 2. Humility and hope \ 3. Awe and thanksgiving \ 4. 'Walk the believer's road!'