Saving God: Religion After Idolatry

by Mark D. Johnston

Book Overview

In this book, Mark Johnston argues that God needs to be saved not only from the distortions of the "undergraduate atheists" (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris) but, more importantly, from the idolatrous tendencies of religion itself. Each monotheistic religion has its characteristic ways of domesticating True Divinity, of taming God's demands so that they do not radically threaten our self-love and false righteousness. Turning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691143943
• ISBN13: 9780691143941
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"