Book description
Are you prepared, either as an atheist or a religious believer, to have
your ideas of God, the self, other people, the body, the soul,
spirituality, and faith challenged in an unexpected and original way?
Here is a book that moves out from under and away from the received
notions of those ponderous topics, whether or not you believe in the
divine. The author is a confessed atheist but one who rejects the
approach of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Michel Onfray and the
rest when they depart from their justifiable criticisms of the
historical record of the established creeds and endeavour to rubbish
what faith could actually be. The book takes its origin from an
exploration of the idea of an avatar; the writing of it was stimulated
by seeing the Cameron film, though it subjects that film itself to an
assessment of its hidden assumptions. The book finally arrives at
specific recommendations for our time, ones to which the argument of the
book has been directed throughout. Are you prepared, either as an
atheist or a religious believer, to have your ideas of God, the self,
other people, the body, the soul, spirituality, and faith challenged in
an unexpected and original way? Here is a book that moves out from under
and away from the received notions of those ponderous topics, whether or
not you believe in the divine. The author is a confessed atheist but one
who rejects the approach of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens,
Michel Onfray and the rest when they depart from their justifiable
criticisms of the historical record of the established creeds and
endeavour to rubbish what faith could actually be. The book takes its
origin from an exploration of the idea of an avatar; the writing of it
was stimulated by seeing the Cameron film, though it subjects that film
itself to an assessment of its hidden assumptions. The book finally
arrives at specific recommendations for our time, ones to which the
argument of the book has been directed throughout.
