36 arguments for the existence of God : a work of fiction / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.
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TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2011, c2010.Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries edDescription: x, 506 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0307456714 (pbk.)
- 9780307456717 (pbk.)
- Thirty-six arguments for the existence of God
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the author of The Mind-Body Problem : a witty and intoxicating novel of ideas that plunges into the great debate between faith and reason.
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At the center is Cass Seltzer, a professor of psychology whose book, The Varieties of Religious Illusion , has become a surprise best seller. Dubbed "the atheist with a soul," he wins over the stunning Lucinda Mandelbaum--"the goddess of game theory." But he is haunted by reminders of two people who ignited his passion to understand religion: his teacher Jonas Elijah Klapper, a renowned literary scholar with a suspicious obsession with messianism, and an angelic six-year-old mathematical genius, heir to the leadership of an exotic Hasidic sect.
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Hilarious, heartbreaking, and intellectually captivating, 36 Arguments explores the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variety.
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2010.
Psychology professor Cass Seltzer finds his relationship challenged by a former girlfriend's invitation to join her biochemistry experiment in immortality, an effort that is complicated by his ongoing quest to understand religion.