Is Religion Dangerous? - Brossura

Keith Ward

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0745952623 ISBN 13: 9780745952628

Casa editrice: Lion Hudson Plc, 2006

Riassunto

Many commentators today claim that religion is dangerous and harmful. In addressing this question, Keith Ward begins by defining what religion actually is and how most human harm has been caused. He then looks at why people say that religion is dangerous, focusing particularly on religious wars and conflicts and on specific attacks on religion, such as the claims that God is wrathful, that religion is intolerant, that religious morality is primitive and cruel. Keith Ward argues that religion produces great good - for example, in terms of hospitals, the abolition of slavery, great art and music, moral heroism, and philosophy and science. Religion, he concludes, is the best rational basis for morality.

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L'autore:

Keith Ward is one of Britain's foremost philosopher-theologians. Former Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Joint President of the World Congress of Faiths, he is now Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London and a Fellow of the British Acadamy. He is also a well-known broadcaster and author of over twenty books, including God: A Guide for the Perplexed, and Pascal's Fire: Scientific Faith and Religious Understanding.

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• Editore: Lion Hudson Plc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0745952623
• ISBN 13: 9780745952628
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224