At the Origins of Modern Atheism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At the Origins of Modern Atheism write by Michael J. Buckley. This book was released on 1990-01-01. At the Origins of Modern Atheism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Michael J. Buckley investigates the rise of modern atheism, arguing convincingly that its roots reach back to the seventeenth century, when Catholic theologians began to call upon philosophy and science-rather than any intrinsically religious experience-to defend the existence of god. Buckley discusses in detail thinkers such as Lessius, Mersenne, Descartes, and Newton, who paved the way for the explicit atheism of Diderot and D'Holbach in the eighteenth century. [A] capaciously learned and brilliantly written book...This is one of the most interesting and closely argued works on theology that i have read in the last decade.-Lawrence S. Cunningham, Theology Today
Denying and Disclosing God
Denying and Disclosing God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Denying and Disclosing God write by Michael J. Buckley. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Denying and Disclosing God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reflecting on the development of atheism from the beginnings of modernity to the present day, the author suggests that atheism originated in the denial that the various forms of interpersonal religious experience possess any cognitive cogency.
The New Atheism, Myth, and History
The New Atheism, Myth, and History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Atheism, Myth, and History write by Nathan Johnstone. This book was released on 2018-06-11. The New Atheism, Myth, and History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and militant anti-religion. It looks at how episodes such as the Witch-hunt, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust are mythologized to present religion as inescapably prone to violence and discrimination, whilst the darker side of atheist history, such as its involvement in Stalinism, is denied. At the same time, another constructed history—that of a perpetual and one-sided conflict between religion and science/rationalism—is commonly used by militant atheists to suggest the innate superiority of the non-religious mind. In a number of detailed case studies, the book traces how these myths have long been overturned by historians, and argues that the New Atheism’s cavalier use of history is indicative of a troubling approach to the humanities in general. Nathan Johnstone engages directly with the God debate at an academic level and contributes to the emerging study of non-religion as a culture and an identity.
At the Origins of Modern Atheism
At the Origins of Modern Atheism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At the Origins of Modern Atheism write by Michael J. Buckley. This book was released on 1987. At the Origins of Modern Atheism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Atheists
Atheists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Atheists write by Nick Spencer. This book was released on 2014-05-08. Atheists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The clash between atheism and religion has become the defining battle of the 21st century. Books on and about atheism retain high profile and popularity, and atheist movements on both sides of the Atlantic capture headlines with high-profile campaigns and adverts. However, very little has been written on the history of atheism, and this book fills that conspicuous gap. Instead of treating atheism just as a philosophical or scientific idea about the non-existence of God, Atheists: The Origin of the Species places the movement in its proper social and political context. Because atheism in Europe developed in reaction to the Christianity that dominated the continent's intellectual, social and political life, it adopted, adapted and reacted against its institutions as well as its ideas. Accordingly, the history of atheism is as much about social and political movements as it is scientific or philosophical ideas. This is the story not only of Hobbes, Hume, and Darwin, but also of Thomas Aitkenhead hung for blasphemous atheism, Percy Shelley expelled for adolescent atheism, and the Marquis de Sade imprisoned for libertine atheism; of the French revolutionary Terror and the Soviet League of the Militant Godless; of the rise of the US Religious Right and of Islamic terrorism. Looking at atheism in its full sociopolitical context helps explain why it has looked so very different in different countries. It also explains why there has been a recent upsurge in atheism, particularly in Britain and the US, where religion has unexpectedly come to play such a significant role in political affairs. This leads us to a somewhat paradoxical conclusion: we should expect to hear more about atheism in the future for the simple reason that God is back.
