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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826154603321

Autore

Scruton Roger

Titolo

The face of God : the Gifford lectures 2010 / / Roger Scruton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2012

ISBN

0-8264-3207-7

1-280-57715-0

9786613606860

1-4411-4063-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Gifford lectures ; ; 2010

Disciplina

211

Soggetti

God

God - Attributes

Knowledge, Theory of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Illustrations; Preface; 1; The View from Nowhere; 2; The View from Somewhere; 3; Where Am I?; 4; The Face of the Person; 5; The Face of the Earth; 6; The Face of God; Index of Names; Index of Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

Lord Gifford's bequest was to sponsor lectures that would 'promote and diffuse the knowledge of God'. Scruton is not a member of any Church though he believes that man's relation to God is the most important relation he has. Today God is widely rejected as incompatible with modern science but what do we lose when we lose that belief? The atheist, argues Scruton with great originality, proceeds by systematic acts of aggression against the Face - not the human face only, but the face of the world. Contemporary atheism is the desire to escape from the eye of judgement. You escape from the eye of