The quintessential porcine history of philosophy and religion
By: James Taylor ; forword by C. Clifton Black
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9781426754753
Subjects: Philosophy and religion; Comic books, strips
Description: The author discusses the history of Western philosophy and religion using comic illustrations. Beginning with classic Greek pigs, the author pokes good-natured fun as reader learn the essentials of these most important thinkers and schools of thought. See a little band of Methodist pigs fleeing from the wrath to come, a Calvinist pig being saved because he is predestined to be among the elect, a Barthian pig hearing a resounding "No" from above, a Deconstructionist pig interpreting a text and many others.
Table of contents: title: Let us now praise famous pigs; title: Classic Greek pigs; title: Pigs of the ancient and medieval church; title: Protestant pigs; title: Modern philosophical pigs; title: Twentieth- and twenty-first century pigs.