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Zusatztext Very accessible and readable. Informationen zum Autor Mark Vernon is writer and author of several books including After Atheism (2007), The Philosophy of Friendship (2005) and Wellbeing (2008). He has degrees in physics and theology, and a PhD in philosophy and is an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck College, London. He also writes for newspapers including the Guardian, TLS and Financial Times, and began his professional life as a priest in the Church of England. Klappentext If 'God is dead', then we spend an incredible amount of time talking about him. 'New atheists' like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have created a huge new interest in debating (and demolishing) the existence of God. But in this book the philosopher Mark Vernon takes a more nuanced approach, pulling together fascinating strands from philosophy, literature, science, theology and psychology. He argues that there is something odd about the way God is discussed today - as if the divine were being examined in a test tube, in a search for empirical and objective confirmation of his (or her?) existence. Yet for people of faith, today and through the ages, God is nothing if not subjectively real; they know God, insofar as they do, in their lives. It's more like the love of a parent than Newton's apple falling from the tree. All that matters about God. 'All That Matters' is an exciting new series from Hodder, with authors that matter writing about subjects that matter. Zusammenfassung All that matters about God. 'All That Matters' is an exciting new series from Hodder, with authors that matter writing about subjects that matter. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.: Is God in suffering?1.: Is God in suffering?2.: Is God our moral ideal?2.: Is God our moral ideal?3.: Is God the same as nature?3.: Is God the same as nature?4: Is God found in peak experiences?4: Is God found in peak experiences?5.: How can we say, God is good?5.: How can we say, God is good?6.: Is God green?6.: Is God green?7: Will God come at the end of time?7: Will God come at the end of time?8: Is God love?8: Is God love?...
