Stokes, Mitch.
Summary: "In A Shot of Faith to the Head, Mitch Stokes, Senior Fellow of Philosophy at New Saint Andrews College, dismantles the claims of skeptics and atheists, while constructing a simple yet solid case for Christian belief. This profound yet accessible book proves the rationality, consistency, and reliability of the Christian approach to science and life."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261 STOSmith, George H.
Contents: Coming to terms -- A bugaboo epithet -- The methodology of atheism -- Occam's Razor -- Belief and doubt -- Belief and knowledge -- Ayn Rand's theory of knowledge -- Belief and free will -- Cognitive determinism -- Thomas Aquinas -- John Locke -- Why philosophy? -- The career of reason -- Francis Bacon -- Theology and metaphysics -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Metaphysical muddles: the ontological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.8 SMIEagleton, Terry
Summary: On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the "superstitious" view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and offers in its place a revolutionary account of the Christian Gospel. On the other hand, he launches a stinging assault on the betrayal of this revolution by institutional Christianity. There is little joy here, then, either for the anti-God brigade -- Richard Dawkins and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.21 EAGTaunton, Larry.
Summary: In The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, Taunton offers a very personal perspective of one of our most interesting and most misunderstood public figures. Writing with genuine compassion and without compromise, Taunton traces Hitchens’s spiritual and intellectual development from his decision as a teenager to reject belief in God to his rise to prominence as one of the so-called “Four Horsemen” of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER TAUPalau, Luis
Contents: On the Bible and God -- On the creation -- On religion and the spirit -- On religious beliefs in China -- On Chinese and western cultures and philosophy -- On religion and science -- On religion and social harmony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.21 PALRyrie, Alec
Summary: "Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, Unbelievers shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. These tugged in different ways not only on celebrated thinkers such as Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hobbes, and Pascal, but on men and women at every level of society whose voices we hear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 RYRD'Souza, Dinesh
Summary: Examines the assumptions of Christianity and atheism, and argues, among other issues, that Christianity explains what modern science tells us about the universe and our origins better than atheism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 230 DSoHuff, Peter A.
Summary: This guide provides an overview essay and approximately 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries that explores the background and significance of atheism and agnosticism in modern society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC 2021