Belief or Non-Belief?: A Confrontation - Softcover

Eco, Umberto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826480993 ISBN 13: 9780826480996

Publisher: Burns & Oates, 2006

Synopsis

In this stimulating dialogue, often adversarial but always amicable, these two great men, who stand on opposite sides of the church door, discuss some of the most controversial issues of the day. One is the prince of the Church, a respected scholar and one of the pre-eminent ecumenical churchmen of Europe; the other the world famous author of "The Name of the Rose", a scholar, philosopher and self-declared secularist, a man who writes with equal ease about Thomas Aquinas and James Joyce, about computers and the medieval Templars.

About this title

Product Description:

Unusual book

Review:

'This is a thoroughly enjoyable, invigorating work.' Times Literary Supplement

'This is a heartening book in demonstrating that serious and charitable dialogue between belief and nonbelief is both possible and valuable'. John Habgood, The Tablet

'The Eco-Martini correspondence lifts the possibility of intelligent conversation on religion to a new level.' From the Introduction by Harvey Cox, Professor of Divinity, Harvard University

'Perhaps the most important thing about this book is that it was written at all, because it is a model of the way in which a dialogue between believers and non-believers should be conducted.' Karen Armstrong, The Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Burns & Oates
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0826480993
• ISBN 13: 9780826480996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 106