| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 280 pages) |
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St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs |
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St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Devils and Mental Microbes -- Protestants and Atheists against the Idols -- Defence of Faith -- Devils and Mental Microbes -- Other Worlds -- 2. Projects, Conjectures, Refutations -- Dogmas and Disagreements -- Science and Story -- Truth and Imagination -- Metaphysics -- Prayer -- 3. Understanding Scripture -- Reading Scripture -- Hermeneutical Traditions -- Explanations, Therapies and Demons -- Uncovering Evil -- 4. Abolition of Man -- Paradox of Objective Value -- Anthropocentric Synthesis -- De-Moralizing Nature -- Plato and the Book of Genesis -- Choice before 'Environmentalists' -- Stripping Away Significance -- 5. Can Animals be our Friends? -- Pythagoras and the Eternal Self -- Common Sense about Friends and Animals -- Words and the Wordless -- 6. What's Wrong with Darwinian Evolution? -- Social Darwinism -- Some Problems with Scientific Darwinism -- Gradual and the Catastrophic -- Darwin's Doubt -- Intelligence and Natural Norms -- 7. Waking Up -- Morals in the Dream of Life -- Waking from the Dream -- Scientific Enlightenment -- 8. What is God? -- Understanding Words and Pictures -- Gods and the Wow Factor -- God of Atheists -- Orthodox Argument -- 9. World Orders, World Religions -- World Order and the Secularist Illusion -- Clash of Civilizations -- World Beast and Apocalypse -- Enmity, Liberty and Solidarity within the State -- 10. More Local Problems -- Honour, 'Indoctrination' and Faith Schools -- Two Sorts of Slavishness -- Sex and Sacred Violence -- Pleonexia, Health and Achievement -- 11. Considering the End |
| Summary |
Militant atheists often mirror the worst kind of ignorance and hostility that they condemn in traditional believers. Writing both as a philosopher and an Anglican Christian, Professor Clark explores this initial perception, considering such topics as the alleged openness of 'scientists' compared with the 'dogmatism' of 'believers'; the difficulty of reading 'scripture' outside 'the community of faith' that has selected and elaborated it; the problems of moral realism (and the problem with ab .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Religion and sociology.
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Faith.
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Religion -- Philosophy.
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faith.
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sociology of religion.
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RELIGION -- Philosophy.
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Faith
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Religion and sociology
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Religion -- Philosophy
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Religion
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Glaube
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Gesellschaft
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Agnostizismus
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Religionsphilosophie
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Säkularismus
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Godsdienst.
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Maatschappij.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009517282 |
| ISBN |
9781845402860 |
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1845402863 |
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1283445344 |
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9781283445344 |
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9786613445346 |
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6613445347 |
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