{"id":1774,"date":"2013-01-01T22:21:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T02:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?page_id=1774"},"modified":"2024-09-17T09:12:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:12:14","slug":"god-in-proof","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/books\/god-in-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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June 2013, University of California Press<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy<\/strong>: UC Press<\/a> (discount code: 13M4225), Bookshop<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Google Books<\/a>, Barnes & Noble<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would it mean to prove the existence of God? What would it mean to you if you could?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God in Proof<\/em> tells the story of those who’ve tried. Some believed they succeeded in finding the God they were looking for, while others unleashed new revolutions in thought in the attempt. From the ancient Greeks, to medieval Arabs, to today\u2019s most eminent philosophers and the New Atheists, the existence of God has been argued about and wrestled with by some of history’s greatest minds. This book takes their proofs out of the textbooks and back into the flesh from which they came.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Encountering these ideas in the midst of an adolescent conversion to Catholicism, I found both fascination and consternation. Ancient proofs became an invitation to a millennia-old brotherhood of thinkers in whose company I never quite belonged. The search for proof led me to suburban storefronts, philosophy conferences, and creationists in Turkey, to hobbyists and professionals alike, and to hours upon hours of debates on the Internet. After crossing the God divide myself, I began to see that the partisans on either side, in their quest for certainty, are often closer to one another than they would like to think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpts: The Huffington Post<\/em><\/a>, Killing the Buddha<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviews: Chatauqua Institution<\/a>, Greed for Ilm<\/a><\/em>, HuffPost Live<\/a>, Interfaith Voices<\/em><\/a>, Religion Dispatches<\/em><\/a>, You Make Art Dumb<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n