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

Author:: Campbell, Jeremy, 1931-
Published:: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2006]
Copyright Date:: ©2006
Edition:: 1st ed.
Physical Description:: xix, 314 pages ; 25 cm

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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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ISBN:

0393061795 (hardcover)

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

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