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Eighteen Takes on God - A Short Guide for Those Who Are Still Perplexed (Hardcover)
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Eighteen Takes on God - A Short Guide for Those Who Are Still Perplexed (Hardcover)
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Who is God? How should we think about the concept of God? How have
religions shaped and altered various conceptions of God over time?
Many use language about God which, if taken at face value, implies
that he inhabits a human body (usually male) and walks and talks as
we do. Yet to other traditions God is a genderless and spiritual
form unconstrained by space or time. And while some people are firm
in their faith in God, however conceived, many others are uncertain
what they think-what they believe, what they think they know, and
how much they think one can know rather than believe. Even among
believers, there are many conceptions of God from different points
in time and parts of the world-even within faiths. For readers who
are puzzled by religion, it helps to have an entry point into this
confusing range of possibilities. In this short and friendly guide,
Leslie Stevenson walks the reader through eighteen conceptions of
God, tracing how women and men have perceived him (or her) since
the time of Abraham. As Stevenson acknowledges, there can be no
such thing as a completely detached and neutral approach to this
subject. Everyone has their own upbringing, life experiences,
prejudices, and commitments to (or rejections of) the religious
traditions they have encountered. Moreover, there are
anciently-entrenched differences in different strands of Hinduism
and Buddhism, as there are between and within Jewish, Christian,
and Islamic monotheistic conceptions of God. By ranging over the
thought of philosophers of religion like Feuerbach, Kant,
Wittgenstein, Iris Murdoch, Simone Weil, Rudolf Otto, Martin Buber,
and Abbe Louf, and practice of the Quakers, Stevenson unpacks
difficult questions, including whether religious language refers to
anything beyond human life, and whether God is a person (or an
existing being of any sort), whether he changes over time, or can
be spoken of at all. Drawing from his deep familiarity with
religion and philosophy acquired over decades of scholarly work,
Stevenson presents a richly informed and yet clear and accessible
guide. Readers will come away with a profounder and more
compassionate understanding of some of the varieties of
experiencing or understanding the divine, a more critical grasp of
their meaning, and an appreciation of how such views inspire people
the world over.
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