God in proof
Subtitle: the story of a search, from the ancients to the Internet
By: Nathan Schneider
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780520269071
Subjects: God; Proof
Description: "In this tour of the history of arguments for and against the existence of God, Nathan Schneider embarks on a remarkable intellectual, historical, and theological journey through the centuries of believers and unbelievers--from ancient Greeks, to medieval Arabs, to today's most eminent philosophers and the New Atheists. Framed by an account of Schneider's own unique journey, God in Proof illuminates the great minds who wrestled with one of history's biggest questions together with their arguments, bringing them to life in their time, and our own. Schneider's sure-handed portrayal of the characters and ideas involved in the search for proof challenges how we normally think about doubt and faith while showing that, in their quest for certainty and the proofs to declare it, thinkers on either side of the God divide are often closer to one another than they would like to think."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-246).
Table of contents: title: Sketches of Babel; title: First causes : ancient times and reasonable measures; title: The island : Muslims and Jews make proof safe for revelation; title: Grammars of assent : a comeback in Christendom; title: On certainty : early modernity upends a familiar proof; title: Coming of age : from the all-destroyer to an absolute idea; title: Grandeur in this view of life : design and its discontents; title: The deaths of God : human progress and divine absence; title: Not yet dead : theism makes a comeback in philosophy; title: God, hypothesis : proof sneaks into the latest science; title: The proof industry : old proofs turn into viral movements; title: God, alone.