MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02594nam a22002418a 4500
001 2008046024
003 DLC
005 20081106145351.0
008 081103s2008 ilu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008046024
020 $a9780830833580 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aBR128.A8$bS57 2008
082 00 $a261.2/1$222
100 1 $aSire, James W.
245 10 $aDeepest differences :$ba Christian-atheist dialogue /$cJames W. Sire and Carl Peraino.
260 $aDowners Grove, Ill. :$bIVP Books,$c2008.
263 $a0904
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart I: Slipping into dialogue -- Mozart, Bach and Vonnegut : signals of transcendence -- Signals disallowed -- Vonnegut : humanist or nihilist -- Almost human, and sometimes smarter -- Animal morality -- Part II: From morality to worldview : the argument morphs -- Morality, the divine and everything else -- An objective foundation for morality -- Scientists and religious commitment -- A colloquy on morality -- Part III: The theological dimension : God in the dock -- Good and evil and the character of God -- God almighty -- God, his human creation and heavenly bliss -- God and human free will -- Speculation : what if it seems to me -- Carl's Sabbath : a personal reflection -- Part IV: Intelligent or unintelligent design -- Scientists and intelligent design -- Intelligent design -- Unintelligent design -- Passionately antireligious -- Jim's Sabbath : a dizzy dream -- Part V: Our age : sacred or secular? -- Remembering secularism -- Secularism is not dead -- In defense of Novak -- Part VI: Doctorow : the power of doubt -- A highly evolved and beautifully stated religious point of view -- An unbridgeable gulf? -- Doctorow reconsidered -- Doctorow : pro and con -- Battling the anti-technological spirits -- Computers don't forgive -- Case closed! -- Part VII: The God question once again -- Getting God off the hook -- A colloquy on the God hypothesis -- The scandal of the particular -- A believer's crutch -- Part VIII: Rats and humans : minds and brains -- Rat to rat, kindness takes hold -- Chimps too are kind -- Show me kindness -- Minds emerge from brains -- Dualism is not dead -- Subtle distinctions -- Part IX: The source of our deepest differences -- A change of focus -- A way forward -- Carl and Jim in ancient Greece -- A final colloquy : on faith and reason -- Part X: The last : winding down -- Enough is enough -- Sure is! -- Afterword: Agreeing to disagree.
650 0 $aChristianity and atheism.
700 1 $aPeraino, Carl.