Atheism : a guide for the perplexed / Kerry Walters.

"Atheism: A Guide for the Perplexed moves beyond the polemics to present an overview of atheism that is rigorous but still accessible to the educated layperson as well as to the undergraduate student in philosophy and theology. After a preliminary investigation of what atheists mean when they u...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Walters, Kerry S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Continuum : Bloomsbury UK, [2010]
Series:Guides for the perplexed.
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505 0 |a Introduction. What This Book Isn't and What It Is -- What Is Atheism? -- The Atheist Worldview -- Refuting Theistic "Proofs" -- Why God Can't Exist -- The Natural History of Religion -- A Godless Morality -- Sisyphus' Question -- An Atheist Spirituality? 
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