Isbn: 9780812690705 - religious postures: essays on modern christian apologists and religious problems (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Solid and clean with little to no discernible wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. A critical survey and examination of Christian fundamentalism in all of its variant forms, but focusing on Jehovah's Witnesses (especially their capricious selective method of quoting the Bible. Brown cloth with gold spine lettering. No writing in the book. x, 269pp., index. Rare in hardcover. Full refund if not satisfied.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. 269 pp., x. Stated: "First printing 1988". Following the Preface, Contents divided into 11 Chapters and a Conclusion: One: THE FUNDAMENTALIST MENTALITY: (i) Jehovah's Witnesses; (ii) Biblical Prophecies About the End of the World; (iii) Biblical Inerrancy and Authoritarian Sects; (iv) Conservative Christianity Generally; Two: THE RISE OF RADICAL BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP (i) Old Testament: W.M. L. de Wette (1780-1849); (ii) New Testament: David Friedrich Strauss (1808-1874); (iii) Criteria of Historicity: The Parallel Case of Wilhelm Tell; Three: THE LIBERAL DEFENCE; Four: THEOLOGY OPF REASSURANCE: TILLICH; Five: DISPARAGEMENT OF ' SCIENTIFIC TRUTH ': COLLINGWOOD; Six: CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT RELIGION: BONHOEFFER; Seven: HUMANIST RELIGIION: JULIAN HUXLEY; Eight: MIRACLES AND THE NATURE OF TRUTH; Nine: GERMAN METAPHYSICS AS A REFUGE FROM SCEPTICISM (i) The Origin of Our Ideas and the Quest for Certainty; (ii) Causal Connection--an Idea of Limited Usefulness and Empirical Origin; (iii) Kant Versus Hume, Religious Implications; (iv) Kant's Fantastic View of Mind; (v) What is Innate?; (vi) The Problem of Free-Will; Ten: MORALITY, REASON, AND REASON (i) Egoistic Instincts and Social Instincts; (ii) Religion and Social Behavior; (iii) The Relativity of Moral Principles; (iv) Innovation and Stability in Society; Eleven: ATHEISM AND EMPIRICISM (i) Is Atheism Reasonable?; (ii) Absolutist Hankerings; (iii) Empiricism and the Nature of Science; CONCLUSION: HOW RELIGION SURVIVES CRITICISM (i) The Framework of Our Beliefs; (ii) Fundamentalism Past and Present; (iii) Circumstances Favouring Religious Conformity; (iv) Thin Ideas and Strong Emotions; (v) Finale; NOTES, pp. 235-258; Index, pp. 239-269. // Glossy dark blue dustwrapper with price sticker inside front panel top right ($28.95) with Title lettering in white letters across top front cover, below Author name lettering in small gold letters, and above Subtitle in small gold letters; abstract gold and white geometrical design illustration on 3/4 front cover of the Christian cross and multiform variations on its appearance. // Brown faux-leather with brilliant gilt lettering on spine. // Previous owner name and purchase date discreetly beneath the inner panel at top left inside front cover; New York Times op ed piece (March 8, 1992) inserted between pp. 108-109, with slight offsetting: Johnny Ray Youngblood, What Will Ian [Moore, killed by a school shooter] Tell God About Us?" "The 24-hour virus of violent death"--else As New ensemble.…