The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Author: Sam Harris
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393327655
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 349

Book Description
Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes heinous crimes.

The End of Faith

Author: Sam Harris
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393035155
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Letter to a Christian Nation

Author: Sam Harris
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN: 0307265773
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 57

Book Description
A criticism of Christianity from the secularist point of view.

The End of Reason

Author: Ravi Zacharias
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310295378
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
When you pray, are you talking to a God who exists? Or is God nothing more than your "imaginary friend," like a playmate contrived by a lonely and imaginative child? When author Sam Harris attacked Christianity in Letter to a Christian Nation, reviewers called the book "marvelous" and a generation of readers--hundreds of thousands of them--were drawn to his message. Deeply troubled, Dr. Ravi Zacharias knew that he had to respond. In The End of Reason, Zacharias underscores the dependability of the Bible along with his belief in the power and goodness of God. He confidently refutes Harris's claims that God is nothing more than a figment of one's imagination and that Christians regularly practice intolerance and hatred around the globe. If you found Sam Harris's Letter to a Christian Nation compelling, the book you are holding is exactly what you need. Dr. Zacharias exposes "the utter bankruptcy of this worldview." And if you haven't read Harris's book, Ravi's response remains a powerful, passionate, irrefutably sound set of arguments for Christian thought. The clarity and hope in these pages reach out to readers who know and follow God as well as to those who reject God.

Evidence of Faith

Author: Timothy P. Mahoney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986431043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
An expanded study guide related to the documentary film, "Patterns of Evidence, The Exodus"

God Is Not Great

Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 1551991764
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope’s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.

Unraveling

Author: Elisabeth Klein Corcoran
Publisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 1426770278
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Candid reflections for Christian women facing separation or just recently divorced.

The End of Our Exploring

Author: Matthew Lee Anderson
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802484247
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Do we know what it means to question well? We need not fear questions, but by the grace of God, we have the safety and security to rush headlong into them and find ourselves better for it on the other side. Faith isn't the sort of thing that will endure as long as our eyes are closed. The opposite is the case: Faith helps us see, and that means not shrinking from the ambiguities and the difficulties that provoke our most profound questions. In our embrace of questioning, we must learn to question well. In our uncertainty, we must not give up the task of walking worthy of the calling that Christ has placed upon us. For we have not yet reached the end of our exploring. This book is written to aid you in faithfully questioning your foundations.

The Book of Faith

Author: N. D. Cole
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733725316
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Waking Up

Author: Sam Harris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451636024
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Spirituality.The search for happiness --Religion, East and West --Mindfulness --The truth of suffering --Enlightenment --The mystery of consciousness.The mind divided --Structure and function --Are our minds already split? --Conscious and unconscious processing in the brain --Consciousness is what matters --The riddle of the self.What are we calling "I"? --Consciousness without self --Lost in thought --The challenge of studying the self --Penetrating the illusion --Meditation.Gradual versus sudden realization --Dzogchen: taking the goal as the path --Having no head --The paradox of acceptance --Gurus, death, drugs, and other puzzles.Mind on the brink of death --The spiritual uses of pharmacology.