Saving God religion after idolatry - Johnston, Mark, 1954-; American Council of Learned Societies (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009)
A diagnosis of the representationalist's mistake -- A transformed pi cture of "consciousness" and reality -- Confirming the surprising hypot hesis -- The mind of God -- The objectivity of the realm of sense -- Ho w the structure of presence might impose evolutionary constraints -- Ob jective mind and the mind of the highest one -- The doubly donatory cha racter of reality -- Does God exist? -- The highest one -- Christianity without spiritual materialism -- Religion and violence -- The Gospel a ccording to Girard -- Where is original sinfulness? -- Original sinfuln ess as self-will and false righteousness -- Christ destroys the kingdom of self-will and false righteousness -- The afterlife as an idolatrous conceit -- Against "man's quest for meaning" -- The afterlife as resis tance to Christ -- Naturalism's gift : resurrection without the afterli fe.
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Keywords: Religion -- Philosophy; Supernatural; Natural theology; Idolatry