By Mitchell Silver
A believable God evaluates the hot God via examining the theology of 3 contemporary Jewish thinkers —Mordechai Kaplan, Michael Lerner, and Arthur Green—and compares religion within the new God to disbelief in any gods. Mitchell Silver unearths what's at stake within the selection among naturalistic liberal theology and a nontheistic naturalism with no gods. Silver poses the query: “If it's to be both the hot God or no God, what does—what should—determine the choice?”
Although Jewish thinkers are used because the basic exemplars of recent God theology, Silver explores advancements in modern Christian notion, jap non secular traditions, and “New Age” faith. A believable God constitutes an important contribution to present discussions of the connection among technological know-how and faith, in addition to to discussions in regards to the which means of the belief of God itself in glossy life.
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