William L. Craig

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9781579104382

 

Contents

 

Part 1: Historical Statements of the Kalam Cosmological Argument

- Introduction

- al-Kindi

- Saadia

- al-Ghazali

 

Part 2: A Modern Defence of the Kalam Cosmological Argument

- Proposed formulation of the argument

- Second Premiss: The Universe Began to Exist

- First Premiss: Everything that Begins to Exist Has a Cause of its Existence

- Conclusion: The Universe has a cause of its Existence

 

Appendix 1: The Kalam Cosmological Argument and Zeno's Paradoxes

 

Appendix 2: The Kalam Cosmological Argument and the Thesis of Kant's First Antimomy