ABSTRACT
Why do smart, educated people believe in God in the wake of the evidence against the existence of God? Hans Küng’s terrifyingly brilliant command of knowledge across the disciplines is on full display in Does God Exist? (1980). This book offers up a narrative proof for the existence of God. Why does someone who seems to know “everything” and has a powerfully critical imagination and travels across time, space, history, and culture from Plato to our present era still believe in God? He can only reach this conclusion if he fails to pick up certain sociological signals. Consider the epigraph at the beginning of the book: “Where is there a rock like, unshakeable certainty on which all human certainty could be built?” Is there such a rock, and if not what then? And what is the motivation for seeking such a rock? Does this goal already determine the final answer to the question, Does God Exist? Küng’s need for “unshakeable certainty” has to be more than a rational failure to grasp the sociological cogito. There must be an emotional logic underlying this need.
