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
The Evolution of Atheism
The Evolution of 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 The Evolution of Atheism write by Stephen LeDrew. This book was released on 2016. The Evolution of Atheism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Evolution of Atheism, Stephen LeDrew argues that militant atheists have more in common with religious fundamentalists than they would care to admit, advancing what LeDrew calls secular fundamentalism. LeDrew draws on public relations campaigns, publications, podcasts, and in-depth interviews to explore the belief systems, internal logics, and self-contradictions of atheists. He argues that evolving understandings of what atheism means, and how it should be put into action, are threatening to irrevocably fragment the movement.
Imagine There's No Heaven
Imagine There's No Heaven - 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 Imagine There's No Heaven write by Mitchell Stephens. This book was released on 2014-02-25. Imagine There's No Heaven available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelief in shaping Western civilization. At each juncture common themes emerge: by questioning the role of gods in the heavens or the role of a God in creating man on earth, nonbelievers help move science forward. By challenging the divine right of monarchs and the strictures of holy books, nonbelievers, including Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot, help expand human liberties, and influence the early founding of the United States. Revolutions in science, in politics, in philosophy, in art, and in psychology have been led, on multiple occasions, by those who are free of the constraints of religious life. Mitchell Stephens tells the often-courageous tales of history's most important atheists— like Denis Diderot and Salman Rushdie. Stephens makes a strong and original case for their importance not only to today's New Atheist movement but to the way many of us—believers and nonbelievers—now think and live.
Suspicion and Faith
Suspicion and Faith - 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 Suspicion and Faith write by Merold Westphal. This book was released on 1998. Suspicion and Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Are there legitimate uses for atheists' critiques of religion? Westphal says yes, if we take a closer look not at the atheists' arguments against the existence of God, but at their observations about the sometimes disreputable functions of religious practice and belief, as demonstrated in the "atheism of suspicion", put forth by Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche.
The Urban Myths of Popular Modern Atheism
The Urban Myths of Popular 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 The Urban Myths of Popular Modern Atheism write by Paul E. Hill. This book was released on 2019-02-22. The Urban Myths of Popular Modern Atheism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How Atheists rely on urban myths about religion to buttress their case against God. God, and the whole business of being dependent upon him, is being downgraded, downsized, downplayed, and most of all, just plain dismissed in the modern, cultured, educated parts of Europe and in academia. This process is powered and driven by a whole, growing series of interlocked urban myths about what is supposed to be involved in being a religious (and often specifically Christian) believer. This book examines and critiques those myths, showing how the Christian faith can be intelligent and supported by reason.
