An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion

An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion
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Publisher : Overlook Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1585677221
ISBN-13 : 9781585677221
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Book Synopsis An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion by : John Haldane

Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion written by John Haldane and published by Overlook Press. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live, allegedly, in a postmodern age in which we have cast aside the narrative fantasies of the pre-modern era. If postmodernism represents the final abandonment of all grand theories, where does religion stand? If religion is a particularly unbelievable form of explanation, why does it power still affect social and political change? Here, like the skeptics of our age, the author asks, What has theology ever had to say that was of the slightest use to anyone? He argues that religion without God is like a car without an engine, and draws on many aspects of human culture to offer a defense of religion that is not only credible but necessary in an age when postmodernism itself has been exposed as a cruel illusion.


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