Author: Casper Bernhard NervigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creeds
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Christian Truth and Religious Delusions
Author: Casper Bernhard NervigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creeds
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Christian Truth and Religious Delusions
Author: Casper B. NervigPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258848866
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.
Religious Delusions
Author: J. V. CoombsThe Dawkins Delusion?
Author: Alister McGrathPublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830868739
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath present a reliable assessment of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, famed atheist and scientist, and the many questions this book raises--including, above all, the relevance of faith and the quest for meaning.
Spiritual Truth and Religious Delusions
Author: William Edward BreenPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462823262
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Spiritual Truth and Religious Delusions is an examination of our human spiritual needs and what the various human religions must do to meet those needs. It is time to put human religions under the same scientific microscope we have placed all other human endeavors from aviation to zoology. What are our needs, what must our/my religion do to meet those needs? Isnt it time to place all religions which dont foster human unity and well-being into the wastebasket, as we strive for the larger, the more workable, and the more beautiful human living?
Atheist Delusions
Author: David Bentley HartPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300155646
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Religious scholar Hart argues that contemporary antireligious polemics are based not only upon conceptual confusions but upon facile simplifications of history and provides a powerful antidote to the New Atheists' misrepresentations of the Christian past.
Why Evolution is True
Author: Jerry A. CoynePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019164384X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from many disparate fields of science. The very latest research is uncovering a stream of evidence revealing evolution in action - from the actual observation of a species splitting into two, to new fossil discoveries, to the deciphering of the evidence stored in our genome. Why Evolution is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, palaeontology, geology, molecular biology, anatomy, and development to demonstrate the 'indelible stamp' of the processes first proposed by Darwin. It is a crisp, lucid, and accessible statement that will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth of evolution.
Religious Delusions a psychic study
Author: J.V. CoombsGod Talk
Author: James CopenhaverPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450075509
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Since we, as human beings, are a part of the natural biota of the earth, and the earth is a part of the natural universe, the only thing we can really know about is the natural universe. Therefore Nature is the only thing we can think or talk about. To think or talk about things that are not about Nature is to think or talk about things about which we know nothing. Extra natural (or as some would say, supernatural) things are things about which we know nothing. Therefore, we cannot escape the conclusion that those theologians, priests, pastors and ministers who speak of extra natural (supernatural) things do not know what they are talking about. If we pay any attention at all to people who don't know what they are talking about, what does that say about us?
Is Faith Delusion?
Author: Andrew SimsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441129219
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Is faith delusion? Is religion bad for your health? How, in a scientifically and technologically advanced age, can people still believe in God/spirit/'other'? Clearly not all believers are primitive and ill-educated; an alternative explanation is that they must be mad, or at least severely neurotic (as suggested by Freud). This book starts by looking at, and giving reasons for, the connection and the division between Christian faith and psychiatry. It asks whether science challenges Christians involved with psychiatry, as patients or professionals, and whether the spiritual needs of patients are recognised. The author examines the scope and use of the neuro-sciences and considers cause and effect, natural selection and determinism. He explores the overlap (and the difference) between psychiatric symptoms and religious belief, the possible association between demon possession and mental illness, and the idea that some people are intrinsically religious and some are not. The variations of personality are examined, with their implications for belief. Posited as a statement, that faith is delusion is always hostile, but outcome studies (reviewed here) show that in general religious belief and practice convey good mental health. Religious faith and mental illness are different, and their concepts come from different world-views. A consideration of them in relation to each other is long overdue. The author is a former Professor of Psychiatry and President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and has also been Chairman of their Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group, so is exceptionally well qualified to address the subject. Although the book is technically proficient, it is aimed at the general reader and is illustrated with stories, brief case histories and anecdotes.