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This book charts the path of humanity’s great spiritual odyssey: the search for God. Author Keith Ward guides the reader through arguments about theories, doctrines, and facts, which are difficult to establish. In the process, the reader comes across the reduction of religion to somewhat of an argumentative and exploratory science.

Ward believes that the answer to the majority’s dilemma in understanding God is that the approach taken by many seekers is too literal. For example, one problem is the belief that if there is a God, God must be the sort of being that the sciences can describe.

In the search for who God could be, Ward provides a tour of how God has been conceived in Western thought, beginning with Homer and Descartes and progressing through thinkers like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kant, and poets like Blake and Wordsworth. Along the way, Ward discusses the prophets, the Ten Commandments, the idea of evil, and more.

Book of Distinction: 2004
Publication Date: April 2002
ISBN: 9781851682843 (1851682848), $24.95, Hardcover
Illustrations: yes
Publisher: One World Publications Ltd.

Author Info

Keith Ward, Ph.D., is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and formerly Professor of History and Philosophy of Religion at King’s College, London University. He is one of the country’s foremost writers on comparative religion and Christian issues. A Gifford Lecturer, whose most recent book, Defending the Soul, is an affirmation of human divinity and value.

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	God A Guide for the Perplexed Ward, Keith List Price: $24.95 Available at the Publisher's website Book Information / Details Author Info Editorial Reviews Press Release This book charts the path of humanity’s great spiritual odyssey: the search for God. Author Keith Ward guides the reader through arguments about theories, doctrines, and facts, which are difficult to establish. In the process, the reader comes across the reduction of religion to somewhat of an argumentative and exploratory science. Ward believes that the answer to the majority’s dilemma in understanding God is that the approach taken by many seekers is too literal. For example, one problem is the belief that if there is a God, God must be the sort of being that the sciences can describe. In the search for who God could be, Ward provides a tour of how God has been conceived in Western thought, beginning with Homer and Descartes and progressing through thinkers like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kant, and poets like Blake and Wordsworth. Along the way, Ward discusses the prophets, the Ten Commandments, the idea of evil, and more. Book of Distinction: 2004 Publication Date: April 2002 ISBN: 9781851682843 (1851682848), $24.95, Hardcover Illustrations: yes Publisher: One World Publications Ltd. Author Info Keith Ward, Ph.D., is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and formerly Professor of History and Philosophy of Religion at King’s College, London University. He is one of the country’s foremost writers on comparative religion and Christian issues. A Gifford Lecturer, whose most recent book, Defending the Soul, is an affirmation of human divinity and value. Editorial Reviews Amazon.co.uk Booklist Library Journal Philadelphia Inquirer Publishers Weekly Press Release no press releases for this title
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