How to be an agnostic
By: Mark Vernon
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780230293212
Subjects: RELIGION / Agnosticism; Agnosticism; PHILOSOPHY / Religious; PHILOSOPHY / General
Description: "The authentic spiritual quest is marked not by certainties but by questions and doubt. How To Be An Agnostic explores the wonder of science, the ups and downs of being 'spiritual but not religious', the insights of ancient philosophy, and God the biggest question. Mark Vernon was an Anglican priest, left a conviction atheist, and now finds himself to be a committed, searching agnostic. Part personal story, part spiritual search, this journey through physics and philosophy concludes that the contemporary lust for certainty is demeaning of our humanity. We live in a time of spiritual crisis, but the key to wisdom – as Socrates, the great theologians and the best scientists know – is embracing the limits of our knowledge. This much expanded edition was previously published as After Atheism, and includes new chapters looking at mindfulness meditation, pic'n'mix religion, quantum spirituality, the probability of God and why Stephen Hawking is wrong about nothing."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: There's Something, not Nothing; title: Socrates' Quest: The Agnostic Spirit; title: Cosmic Religion: How Science does God; title: How to Be Human: Science and Ethics; title: Socrates or Buddha? On Being Spiritual but not Religious; title: Bad Faith: Religion as Certainty; title: Christian Agnosticism: Learned Ignorance; title: Following Socrates: A Way of Life; title: How To Be An Agnostic: An A-Z; title: Further reading and references; title: Index.