Being reasonable about religion.0754656357 Being reasonable about religion. Charlton Charlton may refer to: Places England
William or Frederick William, 1882–1951, crown prince of Germany, son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack . Ashgate Publishing Co. 2006 170 pages $89.95 Hardcover BL48 A British philosophy scholar tests a number of assumptions that western civilization Noun 1. Western civilization - the modern culture of western Europe and North America; "when Ghandi was asked what he thought of Western civilization he said he thought it would be a good idea" Western culture has inherited inherited received by inheritance. inherited achondroplastic dwarfism see achondroplastic dwarfism. inherited combined immunodeficiency see combined immune deficiency syndrome (disease). from Athens and Jerusalem, and Rome, assumptions he does not think are held anywhere in the world outside the Judeo-Christian system. He begins, for example, by asking what grounds people in the first millennium after Christ had for thinking that Christian teaching was true, and whether they could be considered rational by today's standards. Other assumptions include that in order to be reasonable, religion must answer to science, and that Christ can save believers, even if from what--sin, Hell, death perhaps--is never quite stated. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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