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In this tour of the history of arguments for and against the existence of God, Nathan Schneider embarks on a remarkable intellectual, historical, and theological journey through the centuries of believers and unbelievers—from ancient Greeks, to medieval Arabs, to today’s most eminent philosophers and the New Atheists. Framed by an account of Schneider’s own unique journey, God in Proof illuminates the great minds who wrestled with one of history’s biggest questions together with their arguments, bringing them to life in their time, and our own. Schneider’s sure-handed portrayal of the characters and ideas involved in the search for proof challenges how we normally think about doubt and faith while showing that, in their quest for certainty and the proofs to declare it, thinkers on either side of the God divide are often closer to one another than they would like to think.
- Sales Rank: #1222469 in Books
- Brand: Brand: University of California Press
- Published on: 2013-06-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .88" w x 6.00" l, 1.12 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
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*Starred Review* Philosophy is hardly everybody’s cup, but by adding dollops of memoir and first-person reportage to a history of attempts to prove that God exists, Schneider makes an often dry subject quite companionable. Not that any of the proofs forged by thinkers from Plato to Alvin Plantinga rises any more convincingly from Schneider’s pages than from the sages’ own. Rather, by tethering the proofs to his own quest for them from age 17 on, Schneider enlivens them. He discloses that he’s Jewish, raised by nonobservant, secular, but not antireligious parents who allowed him his own choices in spirituality (he’s now a Catholic). They also divorced, which one would think gave great impetus to his quest, though he doesn’t make a big thing of it because he’s careful never to give too much personal information and distract from the proofs. Besides the classical Greeks, he draws the proofs he discusses from the great medieval Catholic philosophers, those of Muslim Spain, foundational Enlightenment thinkers, and later and contemporary figures, especially those who have brought about a rebirth of Christian philosophy since the 1980s. Of course, he also notes disprovers—ever more of them as the narrative approaches the present, concluding with the New Atheists and their disputers, for both of whom he turns from historian-memoirist into reporter. A book that starts attractively and gets more enjoyable by the page. --Ray Olson
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"As journalist Nathan Schneider aptly observes in 'God in Proof,' proofs about God can be a very preachy genre. . . . Schneider explores them as cultural artifacts, with value regardless of how one evaluates their truth value." (Becky Garrison Washington Post 2013-05-14)
"A book that starts attractively and gets more enjoyable by the page." STARRED REVIEW (Ray Olson Booklist 2013-06-01)
"As a popularization of recondite argument, God in Proof mingles accessible explanations with a reporter’s fresh outlook." (John L. Murphy New York Journal of Books 2013-06-03)
"A philosophically engaging and challenging work, accessible enough for the nonacademic reader as well as specialists." (Library Journal 2013-08-15)
"Compulsively readable." (Phil Klay Full Stop 2013-09-12)
"Philosophy is the centerpiece of God in Proof, but at heart the book is a despairing/joyous/troubling/awe-inspiring/universally understood story of an individual struggling with the idea of God. In the world of philosophy, the question of God is entirely divorced from matters of the heart. But what inspires the inquiry and rises from its aftermath is entirely a matter of love—for reason, for people, and for God. God in Proof is a straightforward, unpretentious, and deeply affecting reminder of that." (Chris Francis Yes! 2013-09-27)
"Though the book is informed by considerable scholarship . . . Schneider’s audience includes anyone with an interest in intellectual history and faith. Tracing the philosophical dialectic in a manner both responsible to the issues and accessible to the ordinary reader, Schneider weaves together intellectual history with his own quest for faith." (William Rehg, S.J. America 2013-11-04)
"For a non-specialist, Schneider, in a compact, book provides background on, synopses of, and observations about a wide spectrum of efforts to prove and disprove God’s existence. . . . I recommend Proof to those whose taste in reading runs to philosophical theology and to all those for whom the intellectual side of the religious quest is an interest." (Drew Christiansen America 2013-05-30)
"Entertaining, well written, and historically comprehensive . . . Schneider has given us a means of clearly seeing the intimate relationship between a religious way of being in the world and the expression of this life in the rational language of proofs." (Robert Bolger Los Angeles Review of Books 2013-11-09)
"Relayed in non-technical language, God in Proof challanges the casual and the experienced philospher alike to engage with historical arguments as they make their own quest for truth." (Timothy Jacobs First Things 2014-02-01)
"By adding dollops of memoir and first-person reportage to a history of attempts to prove that God exists, Schneider makes an often dry subject both companionable and insightful. Top 10 Religion and Spirituality Books: 2013 (Ilene Cooper Booklist 2013-11-15)
"Schneider brings the vaulted ceilings of the topic of the proof of God down to a more understandable, cozier level." (Hannah Zamora The Aquinian 2015-03-24)
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"What to call this odd, fascinating, and absolutely compelling book? History? Treatise? Manifesto? Travelogue? Confession? It’s all of the above, plus drawings that are as full of wit as the delightful prose. The combination is deceptively casual, for as Schneider’s excursions into philosophy and theology knit together into a story, we see the shape of subtly powerful argument for proofs as a genre more akin to visions than logic. That makes them no less true or false; only (like this remarkable book) revelatory."—Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family
"A heartfelt exploration of a matter typically assumed to be about the head alone, full of faith yet faithful to reason and gloriously free of the cliches of 'true believers' and 'new atheists' alike."—Stephen Prothero, God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World
"If Walter Kaufmann and Annie Dillard had a love child, it would be Nathan Schneider. Part philosophy junkie, part spiritual seeker, all journalist, Schneider takes us on a tour of proofs for the existence of God. Rather than trying to advance a single theistic idea, he reveals that the question of God's existence remains as urgent as ever—not in a final proof, but as an irrepressible confrontation between the self and the world. This is a very special book, written by a gifted observer of the human condition."—Kathryn Lofton, Yale University
God in Proof is a tour de force. I mean this, first of all, in the dictionary sense--the book is an exceptional achievement, unequaled by anyone else; it is a feat of extraordinary writing and ingenuity. But I also mean it metaphorically--Nathan Schneider takes the reader on an exciting historical tour of attempts to reinforce religious belief by way of proof. Though I'm a philosopher by profession and Schneider is not, I couldn't put the book down--philosophical insights veritably popped from the pages. I enthusiastically recommend the book to anyone, professional philosopher or not, interested in philosophical argument, in general, and proofs of God's existence, in particular."—Kelly James Clark, Return to Reason
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Is it possible to prove the existence of God? Great book!
By Sylvia Beach
This is not only a survey of searches for a proof for (or against) the existence of God through the ages--from a monk named Anselm, to Socrates, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Ibn Tufayl, all the way through to contemporaries like Stephen Hawking, William Lane Craig, and Sam Harris--it is also the personal story of how the author converted to Catholicism by way of a monastery. Interspersed throughout are Schneider's delightful line drawings. An engaging and interesting read, this book made me question my own beliefs and what I consider to be "proof." Highly recommended for students of philosophy and religion, or for anyone who likes to discuss and grapple with notions of spirituality and personal truth.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
From Plato to Plantinga (and Pharyngula)
By D. E WARD
This book gives a beautiful survey of the quest to prove (or disprove) the existence of God. Schneider emphasizes that although the proofs are pieces of logical reasoning, they are developed by human beings and arise out of the human experience. He presents the quest as a story, interwoven with the story of his own spiritual journey. Each character in the story receives a sympathetic hearing.
Although the quest has been going on for 2500 years, it has been pursued with renewed intensity over the past 150 years. Schneider spends over half the book on this recent part of the story, with chapters on creation/evolution and intelligent design; the problem of evil; the current renaissance in Christian philosophy; the proofs in light of the big bang, fine-tuning, and the multiverse; and the lively dialogue and debate carried on via mass media and the internet. He sees the participants on all sides of the debate as having much in common, and he concludes that the concept of God is bigger than all of our proof attempts.
There are helpful tables in the back of the book, including a timeline of the provers and brief summaries of the proofs.
22 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Curious Disengagement
By Bern
This book is a curious mixture of personal reflection, autobiography and history of philosophical arguments about the existence of God. What makes it curious is the disconnect between the story of the author's conversion to Catholicism and his interest in the philosophy of religion. His conversion occurs relatively early on in his university career, and his study of proofs for and against God's existence happens mostly after his conversion and commitment to religion. In other words, the "proofs" seem to have little to do with his beliefs.
From a philosophical standpoint, there are also some notable gaps in his survey of the field. I find it hard to believe that a history of rationalist arguments for the existence of God would not include Berkeley's idealist arguments. More recently, Plantinga's modal ontological arguments (along with many other "proofs") have been skilfully dismantled by Jordan Sobel in Logic and Theism: Arguments for and against Beliefs in God, but this is also absent from his review. In my opinion, Graham Oppy's Arguing about Gods will provide the interested reader with a much more complete recent review of the current state of the field, and Mackie's classic The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of Godpresents an accessible evaluation of earlier arguments.
To me, anyway, the point of "proofs" is one of persuasion. Arguments are presented to convince the reader to accept or reject a proposition. Mr. Schneider seems to float outside the arguments. His commitment to belief appears to be neither bolstered nor undermined by what he reads, and this personal disengagement left me wondering exactly what the point of the exercise was.
Ordinarily, I would give this book four stars, because despite the shortcomings mentioned above, the book is well-written. However, I had to subtract another star because of the author's unironic presentation of Ray Comfort's banana argument. I mean, really? Comfort's argument from the banana has been a bad joke on the internet for years.
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