By Richard Beck
ISBN-10: 0891123504
ISBN-13: 9780891123507
Is religion easily a sort of wishful considering? Is trust in God only a consoling phantasm? So argued Sigmund Freud sooner or later of an phantasm. And the strength of Freud's argument is still felt because it positive factors prominently between critics of faith reminiscent of the hot Atheists.
But used to be Freud correct? before, few have at once tested the plausibility of Freud's argument. yet the following, in a groundbreaking research encouraged via the non secular varieties defined by way of William James in his seminal The types of non secular event, Richard Beck explores the motivational dynamics between ''summer Christians'' and ''winter Christians.'' extra, throughout quite a few laboratory reports, Beck examines how Christians variously interact with artwork (exploring what Beck has dubbed ''The Thomas Kinkade Effect''), doctrine (from the Incarnation to ideals in regards to the job of the devil), and non secular distinction in a pluralistic international. In every one example, Beck analyzes the underlying motivations of the spiritual forms, sifting throughout the forms and illusions of non secular experience.
The Authenticity of religion offers a thorough ''New Apologetics,'' an try to circulate past contentious philosophical and theological disputes to ascertain the clinical advantages of Freud's critique of religion. here's an not going journey--the clinical look for an actual religion; the result is certain to motivate mirrored image, dialog, and debate between believers and skeptics alike.
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