Saving God: Religion after Idolatry

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 c...

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主要作者: Johnston, Mark (Author)
格式: 电子 图书
语言:English
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出版: Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press 2009
In:Year: 2009
评论:Saving God. Religion after Idolatry (2011) (Rodgers, Michael)
Mark Johnston's Naturalistic Account of God and Nature, Life and Death (2011) (Wildman, Wesley J., 1961 -)
Saving God: Religion after Idolatry by Mark Johnston (review) (2011) (Benson, Bruce Ellis, 1960 -)
Mark Johnston: Saving God: religion after idolatry. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009, xiv + 198 pages, 24.95 (hb) (2012) (Crosby, Donald A.)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 偶像崇拜 / 一神论
B 认识神 / 神学认识论
Further subjects:B 宗教 Philosophy
B Theology / RELIGION
B Natural theology
B 宗教 Philosophy
B 宗教
B Natural Theology
B Idolatry
B Supernatural
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总结: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
ISBN:1400830443
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Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/9781400830442