Talking God, Gary Gutting
Talking God, Gary Gutting
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Talking God
Philosophers on Belief

Author: Gary Gutting

Narrator: Don Hagen

Unabridged: 5 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 11/15/2016


Synopsis

Through interviews with twelve distinguished philosophers-including atheists, agnostics, and believers-Talking God works toward a philosophical understanding and evaluation of religion. Along the way, Gary Gutting and his interviewees challenge many common assumptions about religious beliefs.

As tensions simmer, and often explode, between the secular and the religious forces in modern life, the big questions about human belief press ever more urgently. Where does belief, or its lack, originate? How can we understand and appreciate religious traditions different from our own? Featuring conversations with twelve skeptics, atheists, agnostics, and believers-including Alvin Plantinga, Philip Kitcher, Michael Ruse, and John Caputo-Talking God offers new perspectives on religion, including the challenge to believers from evolution, cutting-edge physics and cosmology; arguments both for and against atheism; and meditations on the value of secular humanism and faith in the modern world. Experts offer insights on Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, as well as Judaism and Christianity. Topical and illuminating, Talking God gives readers a deeper understanding of faith today and how philosophers understand it.

About Gary Gutting

Gary Gutting is John A. O'Brien Chair in Philosophy (Emeritus) at the University of Notre Dame, and is considered a leading expert on Foucault. Since the first edition of the Foucault VSI was published he has written many books, including Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960 and What Philosophers Know: Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brandon on March 15, 2021

4.25/5. This is an incredibly interesting book on philosophy and theology. Talking God is a collection of interviews that covers a very wide range of positions, a few of which aren't very compelling or developed, but all are still well worth a read. Philosophy of religion is where the beginning of my......more

Goodreads review by Leena on March 28, 2017

I would give this 3.5 stars. I enjoyed it, some of the articles were incredibly thought provoking, others were not. My biggest critiques were 1) I don't think theism was fairly represented or if those are the best arguments theism has to offer they needed to be more strongly defended 2) Some of the......more

Goodreads review by María Claudia on June 28, 2020

Es un libro de orientación filosofíca y personas con formación o interés en la filosofía pueden entenderlo mejor. Aún así no es inalcanzable para el resto. Disfruté de encontrar diferentes conceptos de la existencia de dios, alejados de los extremos más populares. Recomendado para los que tienen int......more

Goodreads review by Edward on January 31, 2017

Gutting, a tenured philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame, has put together in this book twelve interviews, slightly edited for a book edition, that originally appeared in the New York Times philosophy bog, "'The Stone." He's interested in how these twelve philosophers, from believers......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on January 13, 2020

This book was a brief and helpful guide to the views of atheists/agnostics who reject traditional Christian theism. I am a classical theist and devout Christian, but I believe it good for believers to understand that “atheism” refers to a range of views - many of them intelligent and coherent - and......more