Book description
With unparalleled creativity & impeccable scholarship, this path-breaking classic confronts head-on the thesis that "God is dead." The new essays include discussions on religious politicization & the dilemmas of hardline morality.
Preface
The alleged demise of the supernatural
The perspective of relativizing the relativizers
Theological starting with man
Theological confronting…
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Why read it?
1 author picked A Rumour of Angels as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
When I first read this book, even though I hold a Ph. D in sociology, it changed my whole view of the discipline.
I was very disappointed in graduate school at first. Then I read some of Peter Berger’s works, who until his recent death, was the most well-known sociologist of religion. He wrote about making the case for a supernatural reality. This was something that was, and, still is, considered heretical in sociology.
I met Peter a few years ago and told him how he changed my view of sociology. He smiled.
From Joseph's list on The best Christian scholarship on sociology and the Christian religion.
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