Title: The many faces of God : science's 400-year quest for images of the divine /
Authors: Campbell, Jeremy, 1931-
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Religion and science History; God
Abstract: "A grand work of philosophy and history, The Many Faces of God shows how our religious conceptions have been shaped by advances in technology and science"--Amazon.com.
Contents: Smashing the idols -- God's immensity, man's dilemma -- Angels come out of hiding -- The technical Trinity -- The sweet deceits of piety -- "Almost like a contagious disease" -- Getting God wrong -- Strangeness and the quest for the divine -- "One of history's great losers" -- A cool mediator -- Simplifying the divine -- "People simply cannot be religious any more" -- Secularizing the sacred -- The private and the public -- Cutting God down to size -- Reasoning God into existence -- The uses of paradox -- Ironic theology -- Democratizing transcendence -- God's biography -- The bagginess of nature -- The tiger and the lamb.