| Contents |
Section I: How I arrived here. Believing in belief -- Illness and deicide -- Is it wrong to accept God's gift of salvation? -- Section II: Epistemic limitations and respect for persons. What atheists want -- Three reasons why atheists should be more charitable -- Have the New Atheists been good for atheism? -- Can liberal Christians save the Church?: a humanist approach to contemporary progressive Christian theologies -- Section III: A humanist approach to reading the Bible. Why we must treat the Bible no differently than we treat any other book -- Spending Christmas with Linus -- Taking Paul seriously -- Can early Christian faith remain a rational option today? -- Why atheists should read--and love--the Book of Job -- Section IV: Advantages and consequences of ethical reasoning without God. Ethics is just safer without God -- Humanism, illness, and elective death: a case study in utilitarian ethics. |
| Abstract |
An anthology of essays exploring the possibility of constructing a meaningful life without belief in God, while respecting the positive contributions of religion. Atheism is considered primarily as a moral alternate to Christianity. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-236) and index. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| ISBN | 0761871640 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 9780761871644 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
