God in Proof : the Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet.

God in Proof : the Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet.

In this tour of the history of arguments for and against the existence of God, Nathan Schneider embarks on a remarkable intellectual, historical, and theological journey through the centuries of believers and unbelievers-from ancient Greeks, to medieval Arabs, to today's most eminent philosophe...

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Main Author: Schneider, Nathan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University of California Press, 2013.
Subjects:
God > Proof.
RELIGION > General.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
God > Proof
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Religion - General.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sketches of Babel
  • First causes: ancient times and reasonable measures
  • Island: Muslims and Jews make proof safe for Revelation
  • Grammars of assent: a monk and a friar restore proofs to Christendom
  • On certainty: early modernity turns a familiar proof inside out and upside down
  • Coming of age: enlightenment, from the all-destroyer to an absolute idea
  • Grandeur in this view of life: a couple of rocky centuries for the argument from design
  • Deaths of God: absence, progress, and evil in the twentieth century?s ruins
  • Dead yet: theism makes a comeback in philosophy
  • God, hypothesis: proof sneaks into the latest science
  • Proof industry: old proofs turn into movements, then go viral on the Internet
  • God, alone.

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