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God and Goodness

‘In emphasising how a version of the argument from design can lead to

a religiously attractive view of God, Mark Wynn has contributed

significantly to the literature of the subject. God and Goodness is a very

worthwhile book.’

Richard Swinburne, University of Oxford

‘Mark Wynn’s God and Goodness presents the case for God’s existence

in a refreshingly original way. This book needs to be taken seriously by

both friends and opponents of theism.’

William Hasker, Huntingdon College

God and Goodness presents a fresh approach to the argument from

design, arguing that the goodness of the world echoes the goodness of

its source. The book makes a case for supposing that the world exists

because it is good that it should exist.

Mark Wynn argues that the goodness of the world provides an

insight into what we should mean by ‘God’. Here, he seeks to recover

the mediaeval sense that the goodness of the world offers an image of

the goodness of God, not simply in relation to the world, but in itself.

God and Goodness is distinctive in taking the discernment of value

in the world as the starting point for natural theology. Wynn argues

that the goodness of the world is the most basic fact about it, which

accounts for its very existence.

Anyone interested in a re-examination of the existence of God, in

relation to the argument from design, should read this book.

Mark Wynn is a lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion at the

Australian Catholic University.

Routledge Studies in the Philosophy

of Religion

Series Editor Peter Byrne

1 God and Goodness

A natural theological perspective

Mark Wynn

God and Goodness

A natural theological

perspective

Mark Wynn

London and New York

First published 1999

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic,

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publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available

from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

Wynn, Mark, 1963–

God and goodness: a natural theological perspective/Mark

Wynn.

240 pp. 216×138 mm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. God—Proof, Teleological. 2. Theodicy. 3. Faith. I. Title.

BT102.W86 1999

212–dc21

99–24145

CIP

ISBN 0-203-45688-2 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-76512-5 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-19915-8 (Print Edition)

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