Intro -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Known, Unknown, and Unknowability -- 1. Where Believers, Atheists, and Skeptics Meet -- Religious Discontent -- Cosmology and the Origins of Human Life -- Origins of the Universe -- Human Evolution -- Cognitive Revolution and the Birth of Religion -- Atoms and Stories -- An Eternal and Silent God -- Religious Memes -- Beyond Literalism -- Stories Matter -- 2. The Being of God -- Religion, Politics, and Science -- Twelfth-Century Renaissance -- Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Existentialism -- Everyday Reality -- 3. Judaism: The Spirit of Prophecy -- Anti-Semitism -- Zionism -- Biblical Memory -- Competing Traditions -- Whose History? -- Post-Holocaust Theology -- Peace? -- 4. Christianity: The Humanity of God -- From Jesus to the Christ of the Creeds -- The Council of Nicaea -- The Post-Nicene Church -- Augustine, Bishop of Hippo -- The Council of Chalcedon -- The Great Schism -- The Western Church -- The Eastern Church -- Sixteenth-Century Reformations -- Magisterial Protestant Reformation -- Radical Protestant Reformation -- The Catholic Reformation -- Puritanism -- American Puritanism -- The Escalation of Nationalism -- Religious Extremism -- 5. Islam: Allah - Far and Near -- The Transcendence of Allah -- The Qur'an -- Identity -- Back to the Beginning -- The Prophet Muhammad and Companions -- Sunni, Shi'ite, and Sufi -- Islamic Extremism -- Moderate Islam -- Religions of |