Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge. In 1911, in a hockey game in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck into Monti Bouge's mouth. When Monti collapses with his head across the goal line, Victor Bradley, erstwhile referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts. Monti's ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls over three generations, one hundred years and dozens of alcohol-soaked tall tales, from treachery in northern gold-mining camps to the appearance of a legendary beast by turns playful and ferocious. It's up to Monti's grandson, François, to make sense of the vendetta between Monti and Bradley that has shaped the destiny of their town and everyone who lives there. In a sumptuous, unpredictable language and slapstick comedy, Christophe Bernard reveals himself as a master of epic storytelling.

"A Thinker's Guide to the Philosophy of Religion"
Allen Stairs - Christopher Bernard

With an approachable, reader-friendly style, "A Thinker's Guide to the Philosophy of Religion" provides up-to-date themes in contemporary, analytic philosophy of religion. This provocative collection of readings stimulates clear thinking and careful attention to the reasons for taking up views on religious questions.
Features The role of personal experience in thinking about religion, alongside the recent assertion that religious belief can be held honorably without argument, appears in a more diverse view of religion as a whole. "At a Glance" summaries, in the form of a bulleted list at the end of each chapter, provide a road map to help readers navigate the sometimes confusing arguments surrounding the many topics in the philosophy of religion. An extensive glossary of philosophical terms, extending far beyond those that are particular to the philosophy of religion, is included at the end of the text.
Topics Featured in "A Thinker's Guide to the Philosophy of Religion" Concepts of God The Design Argument The Cosmological Argument The Ontological Argument Miracles Religious Experience Reformed Epistemology Faith and Pragmatic Reasons for Belief The Argument from Evil God and Morality Religious Diversity God and Language Life after Death