Religion Without God.
Dworkin, Ronald.
Religion Without God. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (193 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Part 1 - Religious Atheism? -- Introduction -- What Is Religion? The Metaphysical Core -- Religious Science and Religious Value -- Mystery and Intelligibility -- Impersonal Gods: Tillich, Spinoza, and Pantheism -- Part 2 - The Universe -- Physics and the Sublime -- How Could Beauty Guide Research? -- But What Kind of Beauty Could This Be? -- Symmetry? -- Is There a Way the Universe Just Is? -- Inevitability and the Universe -- The Beauty of Inevitability -- Part 3 - Religious Freedom -- The Constitutional Challenge -- Is Religious Freedom Only about God? -- Freedom Out of Control? -- Conflict within Freedom -- Is There Really a Right to Religious Freedom? -- The New Religious Wars -- Part 4 - Death and Immortality -- Notes -- Index.
In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses timeless questions: What is religion and what is God's place in it? What are death and immortality? He joins a sense of cosmic mystery and beauty to the claim that value is objective, independent of mind, and immanent in the world. Belief in God is one manifestation of this view, but not the only one.
9780674728035
Religion-Philosophy.
Atheism.
Freedom of religion.
Electronic books.
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Religion Without God. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (193 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Part 1 - Religious Atheism? -- Introduction -- What Is Religion? The Metaphysical Core -- Religious Science and Religious Value -- Mystery and Intelligibility -- Impersonal Gods: Tillich, Spinoza, and Pantheism -- Part 2 - The Universe -- Physics and the Sublime -- How Could Beauty Guide Research? -- But What Kind of Beauty Could This Be? -- Symmetry? -- Is There a Way the Universe Just Is? -- Inevitability and the Universe -- The Beauty of Inevitability -- Part 3 - Religious Freedom -- The Constitutional Challenge -- Is Religious Freedom Only about God? -- Freedom Out of Control? -- Conflict within Freedom -- Is There Really a Right to Religious Freedom? -- The New Religious Wars -- Part 4 - Death and Immortality -- Notes -- Index.
In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses timeless questions: What is religion and what is God's place in it? What are death and immortality? He joins a sense of cosmic mystery and beauty to the claim that value is objective, independent of mind, and immanent in the world. Belief in God is one manifestation of this view, but not the only one.
9780674728035
Religion-Philosophy.
Atheism.
Freedom of religion.
Electronic books.
BL51
200