The Puzzle of God takes a distinctive approach to the complex issues surrounding what it means to claim that God exists. It examines the different ideas of God in common use today, and applies these to the central areas of belief, such as eternal life, prayer, miracles, and talk of God's love, omnipotence and omniscience.

Letter to the Reader; Chapter 1 Unicorns, Numbers and God; Chapter 2 What is Truth?; Chapter 3 The Background to the Debate about God; Chapter 4 Timeless God - a Realist View; Chapter 5 The Everlasting God - a Realist View; Chapter 6 Talk of God as Talk about an Alternative Lifestyle - a Realist View; Chapter 7 God as a Reality within a Religious Form of Life - an Anti-realist View; Chapter 8 The Cosmological Argument; Chapter 9 The Ontological Argument; Chapter 10 The Design Argument; Chapter 11 The Argument front Religious Experience; Chapter 12 Omnipotence; Chapter 13 Omniscience; Chapter 14 God's Action in the World; Chapter 15 Petitionary Prayer; Chapter 16 Praying for Forgiveness; Chapter 17 Miracles; Chapter 18 Eternal Life; Chapter 19 And So ... ?; Postscript; Questions for Consideration;

Peter Vardy is lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at London University's Heythorp College, and is the author of the highly acclaimed The Puzzle of Ethics, The Puzzle of the Gospels and The Puzzle of Evil.