God in Proof The Story of a Search, from the Ancients to the Internet

Name: God in Proof The Story of a Search, from the Ancients to the Internet
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ISBN: 9780520269071

ISBN-10: 0520269071

ISBN-13: 9780520269071

Edition: 2013

Authors: Nathan Schneider

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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 Proofilluminates 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 characters and ideas involved in the search for proof challenges how we normally think about doubt and faith…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/10/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Sketches of Babel



First Causes: Ancient times and reasonable measures



The Island: Muslims and Jews make proof safe for revelation



Grammars of Assent: A comeback in Christendom



On Certainty: Early modernity upends a familiar proof



Coming of Age: From the all-destroyer to an Absolute Idea



Grandeur in this View of Life: Design and its discontents



The Deaths of God: Human progress and divine absence



Not Dead Yet: Theism makes a comeback in philosophy



God, Hypothesis: Proof sneaks into the latest science



The Proof Industry: Old proofs turn into viral movements


God, Alone


Acknowledgments


Notes


Timeline of Provers


Table of Proofs