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008 060530s2006 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 _a9780393061796 (hardcover)
020 _a0393061795 (hardcover)
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_b.C34 2006
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100 1 _aCampbell, Jeremy,
_d1931-
245 1 4 _aThe many faces of God :
_bscience's 400-year quest for images of the divine /
_cJeremy Campbell.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bNorton,
_cc2006.
300 _axix, 314 p. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
510 0 _aBooklist starred
510 0 _aKirkus Review
520 _aExamines the ways scientific discoveries have transformed interpretations of God and religious faith since the seventeenth century, exploring several faiths, arguing that religions secretly fear science will "explain God away," and discussing the relationship between twenty-first-century technology and theology, calling for religion to separate itself in order to strengthen itself.
505 0 _aSmashing 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.
521 2 _aAdult
_bFollett Library Resources
650 0 _aReligion and science
_xHistory.
650 0 _aGod.
650 7 _aReligion and science
_xHistory.
_2sears
650 7 _aGod.
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