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1 online resource |
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| Summary |
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 philosophers and the New Atheists. Framed by an account of Schneider's own unique journey, God in Proof illuminates the great minds who wrestled with one of history's biggest questions together with their arguments, bringing them to life in their time, and our own. Schneider's sure-handed portrayal of the c. |
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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
God -- Proof.
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God -- Proof. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781299713246 |
| ISBN |
1299713246 (e-book) |
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9781299713246 (e-book) |
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0520957563 (electronic book) |
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9780520957565 (electronic book) |
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9780520269071 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520269071 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40022179536 |
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