Christianity Without God by Maguire, Daniel C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Part I. God

Chapter 1. Overture

Critique and Promise Religions Run Riot Religion’s Flawed Immune System Audiatur Altera Pars—Let the Other Side Be Heard Distracted by God: Atheists and Theists United

Literalism Strips Metaphor Bare

Atheists Defined by Their Opponents Religion as a Response to the Sacred

Notice, No God-Talk There. Not a Bit of It

The Separability of Dogmas and Morals

Chapter 2. Deification

Agnostic Theists The Lubricity of “God” The Apophatic Hideaway Humpty Dumpty Semantics Escape Routes The Bible Good God, Bad God Analogy to the Rescue Compartmentalizing the Bad God Morality and God-Talk The Abstract and Neutered God Solution Closeted Agnostics Can Jesus Help?

Chapter 3. Proliferation

Godly Sex Change God as Time-Traveler and Mutant Metaphor The Perils of Travel Proliferation and the Christian Gods Good God, Bad Dualism

Chapter 4. The Beginning That Wasn’t

Back to the Agnostic Theists Elan Vital Defending God Back to the Nonbeginning Chance versus Intelligent Design: And the Winner Is? Chance or Designer, the False Dichotomy The Alternative to Chance God and Billiards

Part II. The Divinity of Jesus

Chapter 5. The Greatest Story Never Told

Once Upon a Time The Perils of Anachronism Which Jesus? The Docetist Escape Flaws Creep In Was The Church Jesus’ Idea? Roman or Christian? The Constructed Jesus Could Anything Good Come Out of Nicaea? Bible to the Rescue? Jesus as Christological Nuisance

Chapter 6. From Jesus to Christ

Jesus Confused? Pope Peter? Competitive Deifications Gods Dying and Eaten But Why Did the Romans Crucify Him? Divinity as a Demotion The Fallacy of Misplaced Abstractness The Sequel The Art of Subversion About Turning That Other Cheek

Turning the other Cheek Getting Sued for Your Clothing Walk the Extra Mile

Chapter 7. From Christianity to Cross-tianity

The Pains and Gains of God-Making Seeds of Democratic Theory Jesus’ Trek through History Bloodshed as Salvific The Fish That Got Away How Easily Things Are Broken Safety in Atheism?

Part III. The Living Dead

Chapter 8. From Hell to Jiggledeegreen

Imagination Unbound The Bible on Afterlife Something Borrowed, Something New Problems with Resurrected Bodies Paul’s Bottom Line Lost in the Clouds Rapture Heaven Here, Not Heaven Above How to Go to Hell Jiggledeegreen Afterlife as Metaphor and Apartheid Modern Agnosticism, Implicit and Explicit Immortality and the Evolution of Species

Part IV. The Quest for a Global Ethic

Chapter 9. When We Are as Remote as Charlemagne

The Sky Is Falling Too Many People, Too Little Earth Conservatives as Worshippers of Dead Liberals The Infinity Lies The Gods Do Not Die from Denial, They Resurface The Kill-Power God Is It Too Late? A Word of Hope, Please! The End of Military History

Chapter 10. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?

Awakening from Moral Slumbers The Demise of National Sovereignty Embarrassed into Peace? The Other Vatican More Radical Religion Kairos

Chapter 11. From Prose to Poetry

Exodus/Sinai: History or Metaphor? Outlaws and Heretics The One Percent versus the Ninety-Nine Percent But Where Was God in All of This? The Arrogance of Genius What Makes a Classic a Classic Pragmatic Utopianism The Democracy Illusion

Chapter 12. When History Turned a Corner

The Pharaonic Alternative Idealism with an Eye to the Bottom Line Household versus Jungle Regulation and Taxation, Hebrew Style “Wonder Bread” Recidivism But What of the Rest of Nature? The Power Curve Yahweh as Convert The Hope Dividend The Four Synoptic Gospels From Dilmun to Genesis

Epilogue: The God Loss Notes Select Annotated Bibliography

Further Readings on the “God” Hypothesis Jesus: The Man and the Myths Life After Death Resources for a Global Ethic

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