{"product_id":"saving-god-religion-after-idolatry-9780691152615","title":"Saving God: Religion After Idolatry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold and persuasive case for abandoning old religions and still believing in God\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book, Mark Johnston argues that God needs to be saved not only from the distortions of the \"undergraduate atheists\" (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris) but, more importantly, from the idolatrous tendencies of religion itself. Each monotheistic religion has its characteristic ways of domesticating True Divinity, of taming God's demands so that they do not radically threaten our self-love and false righteousness. Turning the monotheistic critique of idolatry on the monotheisms themselves, Johnston shows that much in these traditions must be condemned as false and spiritually debilitating. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA central claim of the book is that \u003ci\u003esupernaturalism\u003c\/i\u003e is idolatry. If this is right, everything changes; we cannot place our salvation in jeopardy by tying it essentially to the supernatural cosmologies of the ancient Near East. Remarkably, Johnston rehabilitates the ideas of the Fall and of salvation within a naturalistic framework; he then presents a conception of God that both resists idolatry and is wholly consistent with the deliverances of the natural sciences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrinceton University Press is publishing \u003ci\u003eSaving God\u003c\/i\u003e in conjunction with Johnston's forthcoming book \u003ci\u003eSurviving Death\u003c\/i\u003e, which takes up the crux of supernaturalist belief, namely, the belief in life after death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Johnston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691152615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2012 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Johnston\u003c\/b\u003e is the Walter Cerf Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and the author of \u003ci\u003eSurviving Death\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43174873006195,"sku":"9.78069E+12","price":38.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_83fa156d-b123-41a6-a9c5-b9fbebcb80e6.jpg?v=1751717980","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/saving-god-religion-after-idolatry-9780691152615","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}