An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion (Intelligent Person's Guide series)

Haldane, John

ISBN 10: 0715628674 / ISBN 13: 9780715628676

Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2003

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Synopsis:

We live, allegedly, in a postmodern age in which we have cast aside the narrative fantasies of the pre-modern era. If postmodernism represents the final abandonment of all grand theories, where does religion stand? If religion is a particularly unbelievable form of explanation, why does it power still affect social and political change? Here, like the skeptics of our age, the author asks, What has theology ever had to say that was of the slightest use to anyone? He argues that religion without God is like a car without an engine, and draws on many aspects of human culture to offer a defense of religion that is not only credible but necessary in an age when postmodernism itself has been exposed as a cruel illusion.

Review: "It is a great treat.... As one of the world's preeminent philosophers, John Haldane brings a careful and rigorous intelligence to bear on the question of whether religious faith is reasonable. The reader will find the objections to religious faith succinctly, and clearly presented and considered. Haldane's witty and precise analysis leads inexorably to the understanding that religious faith is the preeminently reasonable position for the modern person to take."

Bibliographic Details

Title: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion (...
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good