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Christianity without God : moving beyond the dogmas and retrieving the epic moral narrative /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. God; Chapter 1. Overture; Critique and Promise; Religions Run Riot; Religion's Flawed Immune System; Audiatur Altera Pars-Let the Other Side Be Heard; Distracted by God: Atheists and Theists United; Literalism Strips Metaphor Bare; Atheists Defined by Their Opponents; Religion as a Response to the Sacred; Notice, No God-Talk There. Not a Bit of It; The Separability of Dogmas and Morals; Chapter 2. Deification; Agnostic Theists; The Lubricity of "God"; The Apophatic Hideaway; Humpty Dumpty Semantics; Escape Routes; The Bible; Good God, Bad God; Analogy to the Rescue.
- Compartmentalizing the Bad GodMorality and God-Talk; The Abstract and Neutered God Solution; Closeted Agnostics; Can Jesus Help?; Chapter 3. Proliferation; Godly Sex Change; God as Time-Traveler and Mutant Metaphor; The Perils of Travel; Proliferation and the Christian Gods; Good God, Bad Dualism; Chapter 4. The Beginning That Wasn't; Back to the Agnostic Theists; Elan Vital; Defending God; Back to the Nonbeginning; Chance Versus Intelligent Design: And the Winner Is?; Chance or Designer, the False Dichotomy; The Alternative to Chance; God and Billiards; Part II. The Divinity of Jesus.
- Chapter 5. The Greatest Story Never ToldOnce Upon a Time; The Perils of Anachronism; Which Jesus?; The Docetist Escape; Flaws Creep In; Was the Church Jesus' Idea?; Roman or Christian?; The Constructed Jesus; Could Anything Good Come Out of Nicaea?; Bible to the Rescue?; Jesus as Christological Nuisance; Chapter 6. From Jesus to Christ; Jesus Confused?; Pope Peter?; Competitive Deifications; Gods Dying and Eaten; But Why Did the Romans Crucify Him?; Divinity as a Demotion; The Fallacy of Misplaced Abstractness; The Sequel; The Art of Subversion; About Turning That Other Cheek.
- Turning the other CheekGetting Sued for Your Clothing; Walk the Extra Mile; Chapter 7. From Christianity to Cross-tianity; The Pains and Gains of God-Making; Seeds of Democratic Theory; Jesus' Trek through History; Bloodshed as Salvific; The Fish That Got Away; How Easily Things Are Broken; Safety in Atheism?; Part III. The Living Dead; Chapter 8. From Hell to Jiggledeegreen; Imagination Unbound; The Bible on Afterlife; Something Borrowed, Something New; Problems with Resurrected Bodies; Paul's Bottom Line; Lost in the Clouds; Rapture; Heaven Here, Not Heaven Above; How to Go to Hell.
- JiggledeegreenAfterlife as Metaphor and Apartheid; Modern Agnosticism, Implicit and Explicit; Immortality and the Evolution of Species; Part IV. The Quest for a Global Ethic; Chapter 9. When We Are as Remote as Charlemagne; The Sky Is Falling; Too Many People, Too Little Earth; Conservatives as Worshippers of Dead Liberals; The Infinity Lies; The Gods Do Not Die from Denial, They Resurface; The Kill-Power God; Is It Too Late?; A Word of Hope, Please!; The End of Military History; Chapter 10. Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?; Awakening from Moral Slumbers; The Demise of National Sovereignty.