Theism and ultimate explanation : the necessary shape of contingency / Timothy O'Connor.

The Explanatory Role of Necessity
Modality and Explanation
Relative and Absolute Necessity
Scientifically Established Necessities
An Epistemological Worry about Modality: Causal Contact with Modal Facts
Modal Nihilism
Modal Reductionism and Deflationism
Modal Anti-Realism and Quasi-Realism
Conclusion
Modal Knowledge
Conceivability as Our Guide?
Modality a Matter of Principle?
The Theoretical Roles of Modal Claims: Towards a Modal Epistemology
The Sphere of Possibility
The Necessary Shape of Contingency
Ultimate Explanation and Necessary Being: The Existence Stage of the Cosmological Argument
Necessary Being
Two Objections to the Traditional Answer
Necessary Being as the Explanatory Ground of Contingency?
The Identification Stage
From Necessary Being to God, I: Transcendent, Not Immanent
Two Models of Transcendent Necessary Being: Logos and Chaos
Varieties of Chaos
Interlude: The Fine-Tuning Argument
From Necessary Being to God, II: Logos, Not Random Chaos
The Scope of Contingency
How Many Universes Would Perfection Realize?
Perfection and Freedom
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
Coda.