Excellent beauty: the naturalness of religion and the unnaturalness of the world
Eric Dietrich
Excellent beauty: the naturalness of religion and the unnaturalness of the world
Author
Eric DietrichPublisher
Columbia University PressEdition 1
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Title and Author
Excellent beauty: the naturalness of religion and the unnaturalness of the world / Eric DietrichPublication Details
نیویورک : Columbia University Press، 2015مPhysical Description
xvi, 191 p.; 24 cm.Subject
Natural theologyLanguage
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references )pages 381-781( and index.
Contents
The traveler to excellent beauty: invited rather than drafted -- Of spiritual journeys--What is a religion? -- The one billion -- The traveler's dark night of the soul -- Appendix to chapter 4. Statistics and probability meet job -- The biology of religion, the psychology of morality -- Justifying the ways of God to man .. via evolution -- Appendix to chapter 5. Yes, there really is such a thing as a coincidence -- Does God want you dead? -- Good without gods -- The journey in tatters -- Beyond atheism : the religion illusion -- The Janus-faced hominid -- The heretic's way : into the mysterious realm -- Some strangeness in the proportion -- Appendix to chapter 10. A compendium of mysteries -- The beauty of seeing more than we can understand -- Appendix to chapter 11. Welcome to the inscrutable -- The personal mystery and the impersonal God -- Summa mysteriologica