More Than Matter?; Is There More to Life than Molecules?

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780745962474
• ISBN10: 0745962475
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2011-02-01
• Publisher: Lion UK

Summary

A thought provoking take on one of the biggest intellectual questions of today, presented with good philosophical arguments to back up extensive research that will blow "New Atheist" assertions to shreds From an esteemed professor of philosophy and theology comes this weighty tome on a major intellectual battle: whether human persons are purely materialistic--nothing but matter--or whether there is another, deeply valuable part of us that transcends our bodies in both nature and moral worth. In short, is there such thing as the soul? For centuries philosophers have debated this question, but the battle has taken the limelight through the works of the "New Atheists." In this book Professor Ward guides the reader through a panoply of thinkers and traditions, arguing that there is more to humanity than bodies. In fact, he argues, there is more to the entire universe than the naked eye perceives.