Nathan Schneider 
God in Proof [EPUB ebook] 
The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet

In this tour of the history of arguments for and against the existence of God, Nathan Schneider embarks on a remarkable intellectual, historical, and theological journey through the centuries of believers and unbelievers—from ancient Greeks, to medieval Arabs, to today’s most eminent philosophers and the New Atheists. Framed by an account of Schneider’s own unique journey,
God in Proof illuminates the great minds who wrestled with one of history’s biggest questions together with their arguments, bringing them to life in their time, and our own. Schneider’s sure-handed portrayal of the characters and ideas involved in the search for proof challenges how we normally think about doubt and faith while showing that, in their quest for certainty and the proofs to declare it, thinkers on either side of the God divide are often closer to one another than they would like to think.

Tabla de materias

Sketches of Babel


1 First Causes: Ancient times and reasonable measures

2 The Island: Muslims and Jews make proof safe for revelation

3 Grammars of Assent: A monk and a friar restore proofs to Christendom

4 On Certainty: Early modernity turns a familiar proof inside out and upside down

5 Coming of Age: Enlightenment, from the all-destroyer to an Absolute Idea

6 Grandeur in This View of Life: A couple of rocky centuries for the argument from design

7 The Deaths of God: Human progress and God’s absence in the twentieth century’s ruins

8 Not Dead Yet: Theism makes a comeback in philosophy

9 God, Hypothesis: Proof sneaks into the latest science

10 The Proof Industry: Old proofs turn into viral movements


God, Alone


Acknowledgments

Notes

Timeline of Provers

Table of Proofs

Sobre el autor

Nathan Schneider’s writing about religion and reason has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Commonweal, and Religion Dispatches, among other publications. He is an editor of Killing the Buddha, an online magazine about religion and culture.