How to Believe
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Overview
In Why Believe? (Continuum) Professor John Cottingham argued that every human being possesses impulses and aspirations for which religious belief offers a home. His new book, How to Believe is concerned not so much with why we should believe as with what leads a person to become a believer. Cottingham challenges believers and non-believers alike to think afresh about the need to change their lives and about what such change might involve.
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- Provides an account of the dynamics of belief
- Aims to rescue the topic of religious belief from sterile polemics
- Challenges believers and non-believers alike to think afresh about the need to change their lives
- Contrasting visions
- The World 'Beyond'
- Adopting a Worldview
- Religion as a Live Option
- The Disclosure of the Sacred
- Something of Great Constancy
A beautifully written and nuanced defence of religious belief as a transformative practice rather than a set of intellectual doctrines. Written by one of Britain's leading philosophers, this is a careful and sensitive exploration of the deep nature of religious understanding.
Professor Keith Ward
A lucid and often moving account of the nature of religious belief, of the habits involved in acquiring it, and of its place in the life of the believer. Written by a highly cultivated philosopher in language that comes from the heart, this book defines a place in the psyche that can still be defended against the scepticism, cynicism and scientism of our times.
Professor Roger Scruton
- Title: How to Believe
- Author: John Cottingham
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Print Publication Date: 176
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781472907455, 1472907450
- Resource ID: LLS:HOWTOBELIEVE
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:35:32Z