As tensions simmer, and often explode, between the secular and the religious forces in modern life, the big questions about human belief press ever more urgently. Where does belief, or its lack, originate? How can we understand and appreciate religious traditions different from our own? Featuring conversations with twelve skeptics, atheists, agnostics, and believersāincluding Alvin Plantinga, Philip Kitcher, Michael Ruse, and John CaputoāTalking God offers new perspectives on religion, including the challenge to believers from evolution, cutting-edge physics and cosmology; arguments both for and against atheism; and meditations on the value of secular humanism and faith in the modern world. Experts offer insights on Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, as well as Judaism and Christianity. Topical and illuminating, Talking God gives readers a deeper understanding of faith today and how philosophers understand it.
From Talking God:
ā[Some say] Buddhism is not a religion because Buddhists donāt believe in a supreme being. This simply ignores the fact that many religions are not theistic in this sense. Chess is a game, despite the fact that it is not played with a ball, after all.āāJay Garfield, from chapter 10, āBuddhism: Religion Without Divinityā
āWhy think that the creator was all-knowing and omnipotent?ā Maybe the creator was a student god, and only got a B minus on this project?āāLouise Antony, from chapter 2, āA Case for Atheismā
āThere are a large numberāmaybe a couple of dozenāof pretty good theistic arguments. None is conclusive, but each, or at any rate the whole bunch taken together, is about as strong as philosophical arguments ordinarily get.āāAlvin Plantinga, from chapter 1, āA Case for Theismā
āIf you cease to ābelieveā in a particular religious creed, like Calvinism or Catholicism, you have changed your mind and adopted a new positionā But if you lose āfaith,āāeverything is lost. You have lost your faith in life, lost hope in the future, lost heart, and you cannot go on.āāJohn Caputo, from chapter 3, āReligion and Deconstructionā
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