Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky,Publisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Amazing stories, discounted by the scientist from conceit, and by the religious bigot from ignorance
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky,Publisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
God Is Not Great
Author: Christopher HitchensPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 1551991764
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope’s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.
Christian Union
Author: The Christian Union
Author: Henry Ward BeecherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The Schoolmaster, and Edinburgh weekly magazine, conducted by J. Johnstone
Author: John Johnstone (elder of the ch. of Scotl)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Outlook
Author: Alfred Emanuel SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Bad Religion
Author: Ross DouthatPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143917833X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Traces the decline of Christianity in America since the 1950s, posing controversial arguments about the role of heresy in the nation's downfall while calling for a revival of traditional Christian practices.
Seven Types of Atheism
Author: John GrayPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374714266
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
From the provocative author of Straw Dogs comes an incisive, surprising intervention in the political and scientific debate over religion and atheism When you explore older atheisms, you will find that some of your firmest convictions—secular or religious—are highly questionable. If this prospect disturbs you, what you are looking for may be freedom from thought. For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a shrill, narrow derision of religion in the name of an often vaguely understood “science.” John Gray’s stimulating and enjoyable new book, Seven Types of Atheism, describes the complex, dynamic world of older atheisms, a tradition that is, he writes, in many ways intertwined with and as rich as religion itself. Along a spectrum that ranges from the convictions of “God-haters” like the Marquis de Sade to the mysticism of Arthur Schopenhauer, from Bertrand Russell’s search for truth in mathematics to secular political religions like Jacobinism and Nazism, Gray explores the various ways great minds have attempted to understand the questions of salvation, purpose, progress, and evil. The result is a book that sheds an extraordinary light on what it is to be human.
Puck
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Spinoza Problem
Author: Irvin D. YalomPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465029655
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A haunting portrait of Arthur Rosenberg, one of Nazism's chief architects, and his obsession with one of history's most influential Jewish thinkers In The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical drama. Yalom tells the story of the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza, whose philosophy led to his own excommunication from the Jewish community, alongside that of the rise and fall of the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, who two hundred years later during World War II ordered his task force to plunder Spinoza's ancient library in an effort to deal with the Nazis' "Spinoza Problem." Seamlessly alternating between Golden Age Amsterdam and Nazi Germany, Yalom investigates the inner lives of these two enigmatic men in a tale of influence and anxiety, the origins of good and evil, and the philosophy of freedom and the tyranny of terror.