God in proof : the story of a search, from the ancients to the Internet / Nathan Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Nathan, 1984-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God--Proof.

God.

Physical Description:

xii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]

Contents:

Sketches of Babel

First causes: ancient times and reasonable measures

Island: Muslims and Jews make proof safe for Revelation

Grammars of assent: a monk and a friar restore proofs to Christendom

On certainty: early modernity turns a familiar proof inside out and upside down

Coming of age: enlightenment, from the all-destroyer to an absolute idea

Grandeur in this view of life: a couple of rocky centuries for the argument from design

Deaths of God: absence, progress, and evil in the twentieth century?s ruins

Not Dead yet: theism makes a comeback in philosophy

God, hypothesis: proof sneaks into the latest science

Proof industry: old proofs turn into movements, then go viral on the Internet

God, alone.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780520269071

0520269071

OCLC:

812530944