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What happened to God? Why does he need to be rescued?
Can the idea of God can still have meaning in a secular world that rejects the supernatural? Might a positive and sensitive atheism serve to deepen the idea of God as a pointer to reality itself? From East to West, and from the Ancient Greeks to the present day, this is the strange story of two seemingly conflicting ideas and how they impact on one another.
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Exploring the idea of HOME...
Nietzsche craved the high alps; Heidegger his mountain hut. Where do you go for inspiration? Where do you really belong?
A place? A person? A career? An aspiration? Something to work towards or escape from? What is 'home' for you? This book asks the most fundamental of all questions: Where do I belong?
Starting with Nietzsche's challenge to find meaning in a directionless universe, it explores the way we map out our personal worlds to create a sense of home.
From the orientation of temples in the ancient Near East, to the danger of being treated as no more than a customer or voter in an atomised world, it examines the importance of personal space and what we do with it.
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Why 'Philosophy and Ethics'?
I believe there is great value in asking outselves fundamental existential questions. Who am I? What is the purpose of life? What should I do? Where do I belong? How can I find and promote happiness? How should I relate to those around me and the natural world? Such questions are urgent and universal, whether they are asked from a religious perspective or a secular one.
All my books - in one way or another - address these questions. I take a broadly secular and humanist approach, but have been, at different times, both an ordained Anglican and a practising Buddhist. If you think that's weird, just read 'About Me'!
God and the Great War
In June 1916, two remarkable religious thinkers found themselves on opposite sides of the battle of Verdun; for both the experience was uniquely formative, but they responded to it very differently. It transformed their ideas of God, their careers and their lives.
A German Lutheran chaplain and a French Jesuit stretcher bearer, although separated by only a few hundred yards of mud and barbed wire, tried to cope with, and make sense of, that horror of death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. They – Paul Tillich and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – reflect a century of thinking about religion, politics, humanism, existential angst and the global future.
It's the story of two men and their struggles with religious belief, but also of the whole way in which ideas about God and religion have been shaped and re-shaped during the last hundred years.
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