Part I: The Explanatory Role of Necessity
Scientifically established necessities
An epistemological worry about modality: causal contact with modal facts
Modal reductionism and deflationism
Modal anti-realism and quasi-realism
Conceivability as our guide?
Modality a matter of principle?
The theoretical roles of modal claims: towards a modal epistemology
The spheres of possibility
Part II: The Necessary Shape of Contingency
Ultimate explanation and necessary being: the existence stage of the cosmological argument
Two objections to the traditional answer
Necessary being as the explanatory ground of contingency?
From necessary being to God, I: transcendent, not immanent
Two models of transcendent necessary being: logos and chaos
Interlude: the fine-tuning argument
From necessary being to God, II: logos, not random chaos
How many universes would perfection realize?
Some applications of the many-universe-creation hypothesis
Necessary being and the scope of possibility
Necessary being and the many necessary truths
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Anselm?
The unity of the divine nature and its consequences
Natural theology in the understanding of revealed theology
