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Even as interest in the cosmological argument for God’s existence has grown amongst philosophers of religion, few contemporary treatments deal with it fairly and consistently. In this survey of the history of the cosmological proof, William Lane Craig summarizes the thought of the 13 most prominent proponents of the argument. His even-handed analysis is the most comprehensive to date, and...

The critical attacks of Hume and Kant mark a watershed in the history of the cosmological argument. Leibniz and Wolff were probably the last significant philosophers who felt it sufficient simply to present the argument in a brief form, confident that it needed no further underpinning. Hume and Kant ushered in what might be called the modern era of the cosmological argument; things could never be quite the same after their sceptical critique: Arthur
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