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Title

How to be an agnostic / Mark Vernon.

Author

Vernon, Mark, 1966-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Description

xi, 277 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

"The authentic spiritual quest is marked not by certainties but by questions and doubt. How To Be An Agnostic explores the wonder of science, the ups and downs of being 'spiritual but not religious', the insights of ancient philosophy, and God the biggest question. Mark Vernon was an Anglican priest, left a conviction atheist, and now finds himself to be a committed, searching agnostic. Part personal story, part spiritual search, this journey through physics and philosophy concludes that the contemporary lust for certainty is demeaning of our humanity. We live in a time of spiritual crisis, but the key to wisdom – as Socrates, the great theologians and the best scientists know – is embracing the limits of our knowledge. This much expanded edition was previously published as After Atheism, and includes new chapters looking at mindfulness meditation, pic'n'mix religion, quantum spirituality, the probability of God and why Stephen Hawking is wrong about nothing."--Publisher description.

Subject

• RELIGION / Agnosticism
• PHILOSOPHY / General
• PHILOSOPHY / Religious
• Agnosticism
• Agnosticism

Note

• Revision of the work originally published 2008 in paperback titled: After atheism: science, reilgion and the meaning of life.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-269) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: There's Something, not Nothing -- Socrates' Quest: The Agnostic Spirit -- Cosmic Religion: How Science does God -- How to Be Human: Science and Ethics -- Socrates or Buddha? On Being Spiritual but not Religious -- Bad Faith: Religion as Certainty -- Christian Agnosticism: Learned Ignorance -- Following Socrates: A Way of Life -- How To Be An Agnostic: An A-Z -- Further reading and references -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780230293212 (pbk.)
• 0230293212 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011005254

OCLC

687698346

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library