MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2008046024
003 DLC
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008 081103s2009 ilu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a0830833587 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn262430779
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050 00 $aBR128.A8$bS57 2009
082 00 $a261.2/1$222
100 1 $aSire, James W.
245 10 $aDeepest differences :$ba Christian-atheist dialogue /$cJames W. Sire and Carl Peraino.
260 $aDowners Grove, Ill. :$bIVP Books,$cc2009.
300 $a203 p. ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-196) and index.
505 0 $aPart one: Slipping into dialogue. Mozart, Bach and Vonnegut : signals of transcendence ; Signals disallowed ; Vonnegut : humanist or nihilist ; Almost human, and sometimes smarter ; Animal morality -- Part two: From morality to worldview : the argument morphs. Morality, the divine and everything else ; An objective foundation for morality ; Scientists and religious commitment ; A colloquy on morality -- Part three: The theological dimension : God in the dock. Good and evil and the character of God ; God Almighty ; God, His human creation and heavenly bliss ; God and human free will ; Speculation : what if? It seems to me ; Carl's Sabbath : a personal reflection -- Part four: Intelligent or unintelligent design. Scientists and intelligent design ; Intelligent design ; Unintelligent design ; Passionately antireligious ; Jim's Sabbath : a dizzy dream -- Part five: Our age : sacred or secular? Remembering secularism ; Secularism is not dead ; In defense of Novak -- Part six: Doctorow : the power of doubt. A highly evolved and beautifully stated religious point of view ; An unbridgeable gulf? ; Doctorow reconsidered ; Doctorow : pro and con ; Battling the antitechnological spirits ; Computers don't forgive ; Case closed! -- Part seven: The God question once again. Getting God off the hook ; A colloquy on the God hypothesis ; The scandal of the particular ; A believer's crutch -- Part eight: Rats and humans : minds and brains. Rat to rat, kindness takes hold ; Chimps too are kind ; Show me kindness ; Minds emerge from brains ; Dualism is not dead ; Subtle distinctions -- Part nine: The source of our deepest differences. A change of focus ; A way forward ; Carl and Jim in ancient Greece ; A final colloquy : on faith and reason -- Part the last: Winding down. Enough is enough ; Sure is! -- Afterword: Agreeing to disagree.
650 0 $aChristianity and atheism.
700 1 $aPeraino, Carl.