Description: This book offers a probing philosophical examination of freewill theism. This controversial view argues that the God of Christianity desires "responsive relationship" with his creatures.
The story of the suppression of polytheistic religions in the ancient world by the ever more powerful monotheistic religions is revisited in this groundbreaking comparative study of world religions. Defending the thesis that religious terrorism is neither exclusive to an individual faith nor a side effect of the times, this book studies the way in which the belief in one true God is inherently intolerant of other ways of viewing the world, and bases its existence in the suppression of any alternative perspective on the divine.
Description: The writings of Richard Dawkins challenge Christians (and people of other faiths) to think more deeply about their beliefs and shake them out of any complacency. Christians need to hear some of the uncomfortable things he says and to know how to answer his alluring claims. Here is a robust and informed challenge to Dawkins' gospel of atheism.
Description: The last volume in The Oxford English Text's Byron Series, this crictical study discusses Byron's poetry of the last two years of his life, 1823 and 1824, and supplies individual indexes of his poems by volume and page number, titles, and first lines. The book also includes a general index to the work as a whole.