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The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures
Roger Scruton
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Description for The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures
Paperback. Roger Scruton responds to the atheist culture growing around us, exploring the place of God in a disenchanted world and offering a defence of human uniqueness. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 232.
Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world. His argument is a response to the atheist culture that is now growing around us, and also a defence of human uniqueness. He rebuts the claim that there is no meaning or purpose in the natural world, and argues that the sacred and the transcendental are 'real presences', through which human beings come to know themselves and to find both their freedom and their redemption. In the human face we find a paradigm of meaning. And from this experience, Scruton argues, we both construct the face of ... Read more
Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world. His argument is a response to the atheist culture that is now growing around us, and also a defence of human uniqueness. He rebuts the claim that there is no meaning or purpose in the natural world, and argues that the sacred and the transcendental are 'real presences', through which human beings come to know themselves and to find both their freedom and their redemption. In the human face we find a paradigm of meaning. And from this experience, Scruton argues, we both construct the face of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472912732
SKU
V9781472912732
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99-50
About Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Scruton is widely seen as one of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a polymath who wrote a wide array of fiction, non-fiction and reviews. He was the author of over fifty books. A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, Scruton was Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London; University Professor at Boston ... Read more
Reviews for The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures
Roger Scruton is one of our most interesting intellectuals... This is an important book, with a very wide cultural range. It is brave in pointing to a turning away from God as the fundamental plight of our times.
The Church Times
... if you want a handy pocket guide to humanity's perennial search for God, one that will ... Read more
The Church Times
... if you want a handy pocket guide to humanity's perennial search for God, one that will ... Read more