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Cover of: The Christian Delusion by John W. Loftus
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Cover of: The Christian Delusion by John W. Loftus

Contributors

  • Editor
    John W. Loftus
  • Contributor
    Hector Avalos
  • Contributor
    Edward T. Babinski
  • Contributor
    Richard Carrier
  • Contributor
    David Eller
  • Contributor
    Jason Long
  • Contributor
    Robert M. Price
  • Contributor
    Valerie Tarico
  • Contributor
    Paul Tobin

The Christian Delusion
Why Faith Fails

Published 2010 by Prometheus Books in Amherst, New York .

Table of Contents

Foreword by Dan Barker 9
Introduction 15
Part 1 Why Faith Fails
Chapter 1 The Cultures of Christianity, David Eller, PhD 25
Chapter 2 Christian Belief through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Valerie Tarico, PhD 47
Chapter 3 The Malleability of the Human Mind, Jason Long, PhD 65
Chapter 4 The OUtsider Test for Faith Revisited, John W. Loftus 81
Part 2 Why the Bible is Not God's Word
Chapter 5 The Cosmology of the Bible, Edward T. Babinski 109
Chapter 6 The Bible and Modern Scholarship 148
Chapter 7 What We've Got Here Is a Failure to Communicate, John W. Loftus 181
Part 3 Why the Christian God Is Not Perfectly Good
Chapter 8 Yahweh Is a Moral Monster, Hector Avalos, PhD 209
Chapter 9 The Darwinian Problem of Evil, John W. Loftus 237
Part 4 Why Jesus Is Not the Risen Son of God
Chapter 10 Jesus: Myth and Method, Robert M. Price, PhD 273
Chapter 11 Why the Resurrection Is Unbelievable, Richard Carrier, PhD 291
Chapter 12 At Best Jesus Was a Failed Apocalyptic Prophet 316
Part 5 Why Society Does Not Depend on Christian Faith
Chapter 13 Christianity Does Not Provide the Basis for Morality, David Eller, PhD 347
Chapter 14 Atheism Was Not the Cause of the Holocaust, Hector Avalos, PhD 368
Chapter 15 Christianity Was Not Responsible for Modern Science 396
Contributors 421

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
422p
Number of pages
422

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24643698M
ISBN 13
9781616141684
ULRLS
b3166581

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