An Intelligent Persons Guide To Religion

Author : John Haldane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion written by John Haldane and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This polemical book argues that philosophy's silencing of religion as irrational thinking is wrong and that only religion can offer cogent answers when it comes to understanding life

Author : Daniel Harbour
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780715632291
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Atheism written by Daniel Harbour and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversial study that argues for the value of atheism in modern society. The debate about atheism has staled since the time of Bertrand Russell. In this work, Daniel Harbour returns to its core issues - the existence of God, the values of faith, the role of religion in society - and casts them in an entirely new light. The real question, he argues, is how we should consider our urge to understand the world. Only then can we ask ourselves whether atheism or theism forms part of a coherent worldview. This new debate between atheism and theism forces us into an investigation of philosophy, science, history, ethics and aesthetics, and a desire for intellectual integrity and commitment to truth. It is far removed from the usual listing of the errors of theism. Not can atheism be equated with denialism. It holds real and practical implications for the place of religion and the obligations of atheists in our society.

Author : Alban McCoy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780826476722
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Catholicism written by Alban McCoy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the key questions that non-Catholics—and even Catholics—have about Roman Catholicism.

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101174056
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy written by Roger Scruton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it. Taking the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism," he presents it in an empirical, accessible, and practical light. The result is not a history of the field but a vivid, energetic, and personal account to guide the reader making his or her own venture into philosophy. Addressing a range of subjects from freedom, God, reality, and morality, to sex, music, and history, Scruton argues philosophy's relevance not just to intellectual questions, but to contemporary life.

Author : Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher : Gerald Duckworth & Company Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780715629734
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Medicine written by Theodore Dalrymple and published by Gerald Duckworth & Company Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health is on of those subjects that seems easy to define and then, the closer one gets, is more and more difficult to understand. Does the health of a schizophrenic really improve by being sedated and kept in an asylum? Is a course of Prozac or psychotherapy aimed to make someone happy really a medicine? These incompatible views are most visible in the NHS which has over the decades become the focus of all these projections of health. At the expense of the taxpayer many are being cured while there is no money for some of those who have physical ailments in a real sense. In this book, Theodore Dalrymple sets out to tear into the myths that he believes our politicians have created, with anecdotes from his own experience as a doctor.

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture written by Roger Scruton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Received by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and defend high culture against the world of pop, corn, and popcorn. It shows just why culture matters in an age without faith, and gives an extended argument, drawing on philosophy, criticism, and anthropology, against the "post-modernist" world-view. Scruton offers a penetrating attack on deconstruction, on Foucault, on Nietzschean self-indulgence, and on the "culture of repudiation" which has infected the modern academy. But his book is not only negative. It is a celebration of the true heroes of modern culture and a call to the higher life. The American edition of this famous and notorious work has been revised to take account of the controversy which it has inspired, and contains new material specially directed to Americans.

Author : Daniel Harbour
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Atheism written by Daniel Harbour and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atheism has always been open to the attack that it is a sterile concept and that atheists clearly don’t believe in anything. In this remarkable book, Daniel Harbour turns this disadvantage into the spearhead of his defense of atheism and incisive attack on religion, whether Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Zen. He argues that the battle between the two has wrongly been fought on the narrow issue of the existence of God. In reality, the question is based on what is morally good and bad, i.e. whether a religious belief or an atheist belief puts one in a better position to do good. Using modern examples such as gay marriages and racial hatred, Daniel Harbour casts a light on the ideas atheism stands for.

Author : Shmuel Boteach
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Judaism written by Shmuel Boteach and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Judaism possesses a core of wisdom that appeals to Jews and non-Jews alike

Author : Brian D. McLaren
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0310238382
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Faith written by Brian D. McLaren and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-06-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a God? - What might God be like? - What is the relationship between faith and certainty? - Can intelligent people believe in spiritual realities? - Why are there so many religions? - Is it possible to experience a relationship with God--and if so, how? If you've asked questions like these, you're in good company. From songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Jewel Kilcher to TV shows such as The X Files and Touched by an Angel, the media and the arts reflect postmodern men and women's search for a living faith and a spiritually oriented life. Real faith isn't blind believism. It is a process that engages your intellect as well as your emotions. If you think faith requires turning your back on truth and intellectual honesty, then Finding Faith is one book you really ought to read. With logic, passion, and even-handedness that the thinking person will appreciate, this book helps you face your obstacles to faith by focusing not on what to believe, but on how to believe. Whether you want to strengthen the faith you have, renew the faith you lost, or discover faith for the first time, Finding Faith can coach, inspire, encourage, and guide you, and help you discover more in life than you'd ever imagined or hoped for.

Author : Ikram Hawramani
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781792815331
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Understanding Islam and Muslims written by Ikram Hawramani and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Understanding Islām and Muslims is a multidisciplinary study of Islam as it is lived and experienced by Muslims, presenting an alternative way of seeing Islam that dispels the myths popularized by such works as The Crisis of Islam, The Closing of the Muslim Mind and other attempts that leap from theory to practice without taking real-world Muslims into account.