RT Book
T1 Saving God: Religion after Idolatry
A1 Johnston, Mark 1954-
LA English
PP Princeton, N.J
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1658644530
AB In this book, Mark Johnston argues that God needs to be saved not only from the distortions of the "undergraduate atheists" (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris) but, more importantly, from the idolatrous tendencies of religion itself. Each monotheistic religion has its characteristic ways of domesticating True Divinity, of taming God's demands so that they do not radically threaten our self-love and false righteousness. Turning the monotheistic critique of idolatry on the monotheisms themselves, Johnston shows that much in these traditions must be condemned as false and spi
OP 198
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL51
SN 9781400830442
SN 0691143943
SN 9780691143941
K1 Religion : Philosophy
K1 Natural Theology
K1 Idolatry
K1 Supernatural
K1 Religion
K1 RELIGION / Theology
K1 Monotheism
K1 God
K1 Theology
K1 Christianity
K1 Philosophy
K1 Existence
K1 Atheism
K1 Worship
K1 Reality
K1 Righteousness
K1 Yahweh
K1 Thought
K1 Conceptions of God
K1 Self-love
K1 Religious Experience
K1 Theory
K1 Infidel
K1 Awareness
K1 Self-disclosure
K1 Panentheism
K1 Good and evil
K1 Scientism
K1 Falsity
K1 Theism
K1 Omnipotence
K1 Reason
K1 Explanation
K1 Judaism
K1 Natural theology
DO 10.1515/9781400830442