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Seller: These Old Books LLC, Isle, MN, U.S.A.These Old Books LLC
AbeBooks seller since December 9, 2023
Condition: Used - Good
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The covers are rubbed and sunned along the edges and spine, and the corners are slightly bumped; the previous owner's name stamp is on the half-title page, and there is underlining in the text; the book is tight.
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- Title
- God the Problem
- Author
- Kaufman, Gordon Dester
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication year
- 1972
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674355261
- ISBN 13
- 9780674355262
- Item weight
- 363 grams
- Dimensions
- 1.88 centimeters width by 13.67 centimeters height by 21.59 centimeters depth
The most discussed and most significant issue on the religious scene today is whether it is possible, or even desirable, to believe in God. Mr. Kaufman's valuable study does not offer a doctrine of God, but instead explores why God is a problem for many moderns, the dimensions of that problem, and the inner logic of the notion of God as it has developed in Western culture.
His object is to determine the function or significance of talk about God: how the concept of God is generated in human experience; the special problems in turn generated by this concept (for example, the intelligibility of the idea of transcendence, the problem of theodicy) and how they are met; and under what circumstances the idea of God is credible or important or even indispensable. He does not try to prove God's existence or nonexistence, but elucidates what the concept of God means and the important human needs it fulfills.
Four of the eleven essays have been previously published, at least in part; seven are completely new.
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These Old Books LLC
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I reside in a rural community in central Minnesota near Mille Lacs Lake. Currently, I am in the third year of an online PhD program in Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. It has been a lifelong ambition to complete this educational goal. I am retired, having served as a Lutheran parish minister, and I taught philosophy at a small, two-year college in central Minnesota. I have been an ABE book seller in the past, but decided it was too much for me to do with marriage, helping to raise a family, and tending to my vocations, so I gave up my book business – These Old Books. I look forward to getting back into the shelves of books and trying to find the volume that a customer wants or needs.…
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