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The many faces of God, science's 400-year quest for images of the divine, Jeremy Campbell

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The many faces of God, science's 400-year quest for images of the divine, Jeremy Campbell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-298) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The many faces of God

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

70054198

Responsibility statement

Jeremy Campbell

Sub title

science's 400-year quest for images of the divine

Table Of Contents

Smashing the idols -- God's immensity, man's dilemma -- Angels come out of hiding -- The technical Trinity -- The sweet deceits of piety -- "Almost like a contagious disease" -- Getting God wrong -- Strangeness and the quest for the divine -- "One of history's great losers" -- A cool mediator -- Simplifying the divine -- "People simply cannot be religious any more" -- Secularizing the sacred -- The private and the public -- Cutting God down to size -- Reasoning God into existence -- The uses of paradox -- Ironic theology -- Democratizing transcendence -- God's biography -- The bagginess of nature -- The tiger and the lamb

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