This Life

Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

paperback, 464 pages

Published Feb. 4, 2020 by Anchor.

ISBN:
978-1-101-87373-1
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Enlightening and very thorough, but also very detailed. Favours covering all arguments and perspectives over offering a pleasant read (that does not feel repetitive).
Happy I read it. I feel wiser for it, and it made me think. Still, quite a struggle to "push through" at times, though not inaccessible or particularly difficult to read.

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This book, as far as I've gotten, (not all that far) is making an argument and it's not uninteresting. The problem is, it's not one I need to hear, and I am already finding holes in it. For example, eternity (non-finitude) is presented as a situation in which there is nothing that needs to be done, that since you can't die, there's no room for improvement. If that were true, being condemned to hell would be no worse than being in heaven. All eternity is equal. Hence, only finitude has any real stakes and any real choices. I haven't yet chosen whether to continue reading.

My second objection is the idea that this kind of argument is superior to "faith" because it is rational. I don't see the rational finite way of understanding as a given. It presumes what you're trying to prove. From our (or my, at any rate) …

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