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Norton, Albert

 
9781725255975: Intuition of Significance: Evidence Against Materialism and for God
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1725255979 ISBN 13 : 9781725255975
Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2020

Synopsis

There is a big gap between the orthodox Christian understanding of reality, and that of the default materialism of the culture. We tend not to recognize the default perspective as coherent, doctrinal, and dogmatic, in the same way religion is understood to be. This is partly because of the tendency to describe one's views by what they are not, rather than what they are. To say "I'm not very religious," for example, is to say what one isn't, not what one is. The effect of this tendency is to obscure the metaphysical stance absorbed in place of religion, leaving an illusory neutrality concerning spiritual truth. Reality is the widest conceptual net we can cast. The right first question is: what constitutes all of reality? Theism provides one answer, materialism another. We would do well to look critically at both. This book traces the fault line between theism and materialism so as to follow the evidence where it leads--evidence like the fact of being; our incessant yearning; our competing desires both for significance and insignificance; and the subjective motivations we have with respect to beauty, truth, and morality, all indicators of transcendent truth to which our physical surroundings point.

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À propos de l'auteur

Albert Norton Jr. is a regular blogger (at albertnorton.com) on philosophy and contemporary culture as it relates to questions of faith and secularism. He has been an attorney in active practice for more than thirty-two years and has published two novels: Another Like Me (2015) and Rough Water Baptism (2017). He lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Éditeur
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1725255979
ISBN 13 
9781725255975
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
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