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The Agnostic Reader
Author | : S. T. Joshi |
Publisher | : Great Minds Series |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
This reader prints selections of some of the most profound and pioneering discussions of agnosticism over the past two centuries, including essays by Thomas Henry Huxley (who coined the term), Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein, Isaac Asimov, and others.
Agnostic
Author | : Lesley Hazleton |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Agnosticism |
ISBN | : 1594634130 |
"A widely admired writer on religion celebrates agnosticism as the most vibrant, engaging--and ultimately the most honest--stance toward the mysteries of existence." -- Amazon.com.
How To Be An Agnostic
Author | : Mark Vernon |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230301444 |
The authentic spiritual quest is marked not by certainties but by questions and doubt. Mark Vernon who was a priest, and left an atheist explores the wonder of science, the ups and downs of being 'spiritual but not religious', the insights of ancient philosophy, and God the biggest question.
The Agnostic Age
Author | : Paul Horwitz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2011-02-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019973772X |
"Argues that the fundamental reason for church-state conflict is our aversion to questions of religious truth. By trying to avoid the question of religious truth, law and religion has ultimately reached a state of incoherence. He asserts that the answer to this dilemma is to take the agnostic turn: to take an empathetic and imaginative approach to questions of religious truth, one that actually confronts rather than avoids these questions, but without reaching a final judgment about what that truth is"--Jacket.
Divinity of Doubt
Author | : Vincent Bugliosi |
Publisher | : Vanguard |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2011-04-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1593156669 |
Vincent Bugliosi, whom many view as the nation's foremost prosecutor, has successfully taken on, in court or on the pages of his books, the most notorious murderers of the last half century--Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Now, in the most controversial book of his celebrated career, he turns his incomparable prosecutorial eye on the greatest target of all: God. In making his case for agnosticism, Bugliosi has very arguably written the most powerful indictment ever of God, organized religion, theism, and atheism. Theists will be left reeling by the commanding nature of Bugliosi's extraordinary arguments against them. And, with his trademark incisive logic and devastating wit, he exposes the intellectual poverty of atheism and skewers its leading popularizers--Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Richard Dawkins. Joining a 2,000-year-old conversation which no one has contributed anything significant to for years, Bugliosi, in addition to destroying the all-important Christian argument of intelligent design, remarkably--yes, scarily--shakes the very foundations of Christianity by establishing that Jesus was not born of a virgin, and hence was not the son of God, that scripture in reality supports the notion of no free will, and that the immortality of the soul was a pure invention of Plato that Judaism and Christianity were forced to embrace because without it there is no life after death. Destined to be an all-time classic, Bugliosi's Divinity of Doubt sets a new course amid the explosion of bestselling books on atheism and theism--the middle path of agnosticism. In recognizing the limits of what we know, Bugliosi demonstrates that agnosticism is he most intelligent and responsible position to take on the eternal question of God's existence.
An Agnostic Defends God
Author | : Bryan Frances |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3030733319 |
This book contains a unique perspective: that of a scientifically and philosophically educated agnostic who thinks there is impressive—if maddeningly hidden—evidence for the existence of God. Science and philosophy may have revealed the poverty of the familiar sources of evidence, but they generate their own partial defense of theism. Bryan Frances, a philosopher with a graduate degree in physics, judges the standard evidence for God’s existence to be awful. And yet, like many others with similar scientific and philosophical backgrounds, he argues that the usual reasons for atheism, such as the existence of suffering and success of science, are weak. In this book you will learn why so many people with scientific and philosophical credentials are agnostics (rather than atheists) despite judging all the usual evidence for theism to be fatally flawed.
The Portable Atheist
Author | : Christopher Hitchens |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2007-11-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0306816083 |
Presents excerpts on the subject of religion from the writings of such notable non-believers as John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Richard Dawkins, and Salman Rushdie.
Atheism and Agnosticism
Author | : Graham Oppy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2018-05-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108638430 |
This Element is an elementary introduction to atheism and agnosticism. It begins with a careful characterisation of atheism and agnosticism, distinguishing them from many other things with which they are often conflated. After a brief discussion of the theoretical framework within which atheism and agnosticism are properly evaluated, it then turns to the sketching of cases for atheism and agnosticism. In both cases, the aim is not conviction, but rather advancement of understanding: the point of the cases is to make it intelligible why some take themselves to have compelling reason to adopt atheism or agnosticism.
Good Book
Author | : David Plotz |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2009-02-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0061972886 |
“Hilarious. . . . It’s Cliff Notes for Scripture—screenplay by Plotz, story by God. . . . In the end, though, the book is made by the spirit of the writer.” — The New York Times Book Review “Like the Bible itself, Good Book contains multitudes—it is by turns thought-provoking, funny, enlightening and moving.” — A. J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically “Plotz is a genius writer.” — Franklin Foer, author of How Soccer Explains the World A whip-smart, laugh-out-loud tour through the most important book in the world, a book most people have never read: the Bible.