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Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2014], p2014
Language
English
Description
Stavans explores humans' conception of the divine, from an animistic view to Greek myths and the Aztec pantheon, onward to the development of monotheism. Stavans reflects on the difference between prophetic and wisdom religions and criticizes monotheism's link with violence. Along the way, Stavans explors his own "wrestling" with God and provides fertile ground for questioning preconceived ideas and placing them in the larger narrative of human belief....
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Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
This course will explore how leading Western philosophers and theologians such as Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Martin Buber, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Rowan Williams, and Jacques Derrida have defined and debated, defended and attacked religion. Some are pious and some are atheists. Some are philosophers who explain why religion is essential for human life, and some are philosophers who just as rationally explain why religion...
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