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The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West (Vintage)
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #134075 in Books
- Published on: 2008-09-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
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A sober and sobering analysis of European secularism
For anyone seriously concerned to understand the secular trend in Europe over the last few centuries, this is an important and relevant text. Lilla offers a solid and competent analysis of how the Christian concept of God slowly evaporated in Europe as philosophers and others attacked the foundations of faith. Lilla sees this more pessimistically than I would prefer, and fails in my view to rise to an understanding of what is gained in the scientific rationality that we now enjoy in what an American neoconservative a few years ago (I forget who or exactly when) called our "Kantian paradise". I quite like it here myself.
