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Wright, Robert
ISBN: 9780316734912
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Little Brown and Company
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In The Evolution of God, Robert Wright takes us on a sweeping journey through history, unveiling a discovery of crucial importance to the present moment: there is a pattern in the evolution of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and a "hidden code" in their scriptures…
In The Evolution of God, Robert Wright takes us on a sweeping journey through history, unveiling a discovery of crucial importance to the present moment: there is a pattern in the evolution of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and a "hidden code" in their scriptures. Reading these scriptures in light of the circumstances surrounding their creation, Wright reveals the forces that have repeatedly moved the Abrahamic faiths away from belligerence and intolerance to a higher moral plane. And he shows how these forces could today let these faiths reassert their deep proclivity toward harmony and reconciliation. What's more, his analysis raises the prospect of a second kind of reconciliation: the reconciliation of science and religion.
| ISBN | 0316734918 | | DEWEY | 200.9 | | ISBN13 | 9780316734912
(What's this?) | | Pages | 576 | | Publisher | Little Brown and Company | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | LITTLE BROWN & CO INC | | Weight (grammes) | 835 | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 236 | | Publication date | 01 Jun 2009 | | Width (mm) | 162 | | Library of Congress | 2008051303 | |
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| | | Introduction | | 3 | | I | | The Birth and Growth of Gods | | | | 1 | | The Primordial Faith | | 9 | | 2 | | The Shaman | | 29 | | 3 | | Religion in the Age of Chiefdoms | | 46 | | 4 | | Gods of the Ancient States | | 70 | | II | | The Emergence of Abrahamic Monotheism | | | | 5 | | Polytheism, the Religion of Ancient Israel | | 99 | | 6 | | From Polytheism to Monolatry | | 131 | | 7 | | From Monolatry to Monotheism | | 165 | | 8 | | Philo Story | | 188 | | 9 | | Logos: The Divine Algorithm | | 216 | | III | | The Invention of Christianity | | | | 10 | | What Did Jesus Do? | | 245 | | 11 | | The Apostle of Love | | 264 | | 12 | | Survival of the Fittest Christianity | | 288 | | 13 | | How Jesus Became Savior | | 303 | | IV | | The Triumph of Islam | | | | 14 | | The Koran | | 329 | | 15 | | Mecca | | 344 | | 16 | | Medina | | 355 | | 17 | | Jihad | | 375 | | 18 | | Muhammad | | 389 | | V | | God Goes Global (or Doesn't) | | | | 19 | | The Moral Imagination | | 409 | | 20 | | Well, Aren't We Special? | | 431 | | | | Afterword: By the Way, What Is God? | | 444 | | Appendix | | How Human Nature Gave Birth to Religion | | 460 | | | More... | | |
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