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Title: HOW TO THINK ABOUT GOD by Mortimer J. Adler ISBN: 0-02-016022-4 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 16 July, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Tainted by his weakness to believe
Comment: This books purpose is to prove God's existence plain and simple. Reading this book from an obviously brilliant man, one who could have made a much bigger impact on humanity in our spiritual and philisophical evolution if it weren't for his obvious bias towards believing in "the God of Abraham"(as he stated in his 1953 Great Ideas television show on God). He attempts to reason that God or "some supernatural cause" must have created the cosmos. However, what he, with all his brilliance and knowledge, seemed to be unable to consider is that what may be "supernatural" to humans now, may be explainable by science in a distant future. He fails to acknowledge that mankind knows an amazingly scant amount about the cosmos (or anything else for that matter) and that we are currently in the midst of a paradigm in which we are unable to think outside of until we discover something that completely shifts it (i.e. the discovery that the earth was round, Copernicus discovery of the movement of earth around the Sun, etc). This, in my mind shows a man of somewhat limited imaginative abilities, unlike that of, for example, Carl Sagan. His writings tend to show his rigidity and his inability to think beyond the early western classics and possibly of his Judeo Christian upbringing and culture. This, to me, is a sad thing. A man who seemed to be seeking for the truth, but was really fooling himself and the rest of the world. He is simply another Christian with an agenda to "prove" what he wanted to believe, instead of truly challenging his beliefs and questioning other possibilities. This is a sad story of a man who was actually unable or just unwilling to truly think freely. This prevents him from being one of the great thinkers of our time.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Helpful Beginning for Inquiry
Comment: For an erudite review, others will serve you better. I write as one who was raised in a deeply fundamentalist (very "non-pagan") religion, and who found the God espoused by it far too small to inspire awe.
If you are looking for proof that Abraham's God exists, you will not find it here. However, as one who has only recently begun a serious quest to come to terms with the idea of God, I highly recommend this book. It has provided me a foundation for subsequent reading and instruction in the process of discriminative thought---both of which have proven very helpful as I continue seeking.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Compulsive Argument for the Existence of God
Comment: I first came into contact with Adler's _How to Think About God_ some 20 years ago. For me the major portion of the book has been a compulsive argument for the existence of God ever since. The argument runs somewhat as follows. If the existence of the cosmos needs to be explained and if it can not be explained by natural causes, then it must be explained by supernaural causes. The existence of the cosmos is contingent; the present cosmos might have been other in its order and arrangement. The cosmos is a random one with a random number of dimensions. (I especially liked this part of the argument.) It is necessary to posit God as a preservative agent. For me this argument has been compulsive for about 20 years.
In the epilogue, Adler goes on to say something very important and that is that natural theology has its limits. The nature of God, the place of humans in the cosmos, divine law and grace, etc. belong to sacral theology and " have no place in natural theology."
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Title: TRUTH IN RELIGION by Mortimer J. Adler ISBN: 0020641400 Publisher: Collier Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: TEN PHILOSOPHICAL MISTAKES by Mortimer J. Adler ISBN: 068481868X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: How to Read a Book by Charles Van Doren, Mortimer J. Adler ISBN: 0671212095 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 1972 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: How to Speak, How to Listen by Mortimer Jerome Adler ISBN: 0684846470 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Six Great Ideas by Mortimer Jerome Adler ISBN: 068482681X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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