God: A Guide For The Perplexed

9781851683239

Plot

At the beginning of the 21st century, God has become boring and irrelevant,tates Keith Ward in this thought-provoking text. Ward presents annvestigation of the history of ideas about God that is marked by radicaliews, erudition and wit. He provides a journey through the philosophical andultural heritage of the last 2000 years, drawing on such rich and diverseources as the myths of the Greek gods on Mount Olympus, through thehilosophy of St Augustine and Sartre, to wet Sunday afternoons and the movielien. The intellectual and theological legacies of almost every renownedhinker - believers and non-believers alike - are considered, from Aristotleo Ayer, Hegel to Heidegger, Al Ghazali to Sankara.;Ward is neither aod-knocker, nor a trendy theologian. He claims that most people who rejectod are simply rejecting the wrong God. His belief is that reflecting on theistory of ideas about God is both a good way of seeing what philosophy haseally been about for most of its history, and a means of rediscovering theoetic richness that lies within many ancient and orthodox religious