Slain God - Anthropologists and the Christian Faith

Zusatztext This book will be greeted as something of a bombshell amongst anthropologists of religion...a highly original book that should be with us for a long time to come. Informationen zum Autor Timothy Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute. He has been a Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge, and some of the research for this volume was undertaken while a Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford. His previous monographs published by Oxford University Press are Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith inNineteenth-Century England and A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians. Klappentext This book is a history of the relationship between the discipline of anthropology and the Christian faith. It explores how leading anthropologists have come to believe that ethnographic findings and evidence made Christianity no longer tenable. Zusammenfassung This book is a history of the relationship between the discipline of anthropology and the Christian faith. It explores how leading anthropologists have come to believe that ethnographic findings and evidence made Christianity no longer tenable.

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• Authors: Timothy Larsen, Timothy (Mcmanis Professor of Christian Th Larsen, Timothy (McManis Professor of Christian Thought Larsen, Larsen Timothy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.02.2016
• EAN: 9780198757429
• ISBN: 978-0-19-875742-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology