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The Evolution of God

By Robert Wright

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| Hardcover | 9780316734912

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Straddling popular science, ancient history, and theology, this ambitious work sets out to resolve not only the clash of civilizations between the Judeo-Christian West and the Muslim world but also the clash between science and religion. Tracking the continual transformation of faith from the Stone Continue

Straddling popular science, ancient history, and theology, this ambitious work sets out to resolve not only the clash of civilizations between the Judeo-Christian West and the Muslim world but also the clash between science and religion. Tracking the continual transformation of faith from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Wright, a self-described materialist, best known for his work on evolutionary psychology, free trade, and game theory, postulates that religious world views are becoming more open, compassionate, and synthesized. Occasionally, his prescriptions can seem obvious—for instance, that members of the different Abrahamic faiths should think of their religions as “having been involved, all along, in the same undertaking.” But his core argument, that religion is getting “better” with each passing aeon, is enthralling. (The New Yorker)

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  • The Evolution of God, By Robert Wright

    Richard Dawkins' atheism has provoked a series of intelligent books about religion, from Marilynne Robinson's Absence of Mind and K aren Armstrong's The Case for God to this anthropological and philosophical enquiry by Robert Wright, an agnostic. Wri ... (read full critics)

    independent published on Sun, 7 Nov 2010

  • No Smiting

    God has mellowed. The God that most Americans worship occasionally gets upset about abortion and gay marriage, but he is a softy compared with the Yahweh of the Hebrew Bible. That was a warrior God, savagely tribal, deeply insecure about his status a ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 384 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0316734918
  • ISBN-13: 9780316734912
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
  • Pub date: Jun 08, 2009
  • Also available as: Mass Market Paperback and Others
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