Philip Stewart

Beyond Belief (eBook, ePUB)

Life After Faith

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How and why does faith so often fade away? Where does it go, and what do you hold on to when it is gone? Between the believer and the unbeliever lies a sort of communicational voida cultural gapusually marked by silence or, alternatively, by rage. This extended essay draws on history, literature, and theology as well as personal experience in an attempt to give some kind of account of the demise of belief in terms that a believer can perhaps understand and, in the process, to cover some of the principal reasons why the arguments usually put forward to buttress faith prove to be without force. In the end, faith can enrich a persons life only at the expense of the illusions on which it is based.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781499073225
• Artikelnr.: 52573769

Autorenporträt

Philip Stewart was raised in public schools and an independent evangelical church in Kansas City, Missouri. He spent his professional career teaching French and literature at Duke University, and has written numerous books on the literature, art, and culture of the Enlightenment. He is currently co-editor of the complete correspondence of Montesquieu, one of the most influential political philosophers of the eighteenth century. He lives with his wife in Clinton, New York and Durham, North Carolina.