God in proof the story of a search, from the ancients to the Internet /
Nathan Schneider.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Sketches of Babel -- First causes: ancient times and reasonable measures -- Island: Muslims and Jews make proof safe for Revelation -- Grammars of assent: a monk and a friar restore proofs to Christendom -- On certainty: early modernity turns a familiar proof inside out and upside down -- Coming of age: enlightenment, from the all-destroyer to an absolute idea -- Grandeur in this view of life: a couple of rocky centuries for the argument from design -- Deaths of God: absence, progress, and evil in the twentieth century?s ruins -- Dead yet: theism makes a comeback in philosophy -- God, hypothesis: proof sneaks into the latest science -- Proof industry: old proofs turn into movements, then go viral on the Internet -- God, alone.