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To read this book, you must not be a "strong agnostic", but, rather, a "religious agnostic", that is someone to whom "God comes as a question".
In fact, as the author explicity states in the introduction, it is a book for the "Christian agnostics", so for those agnostics that recognise the influence of Christianity on their attitude.
The text touches, interestingly, the relationship between agnosticism, cosmology, physics as well as neuroscience, providing also a focused, grounded philosophical overview.
To me, the most interesting parts are, first, the ones focusing on Socrates and the legacy of his philosophy, intended as "way of life". Here one cannot but appreciate Socrates' epistemological stance of knowing that you do not know, for it opens the way to doubt and it excludes (theistic and atheistic) dogma.
Second, the parts analysing the aphopatic tradition, that is the idea that God cannot be known since it is "something else" and can be described only in negative terms.
I thus take as mine the agnostic spirit of this book. Its attitude of humility towards the unknown and its confession of ignorance nurture my "sense and taste for the Infinite".
In fact, as the author explicity states in the introduction, it is a book for the "Christian agnostics", so for those agnostics that recognise the influence of Christianity on their attitude.
The text touches, interestingly, the relationship between agnosticism, cosmology, physics as well as neuroscience, providing also a focused, grounded philosophical overview.
To me, the most interesting parts are, first, the ones focusing on Socrates and the legacy of his philosophy, intended as "way of life". Here one cannot but appreciate Socrates' epistemological stance of knowing that you do not know, for it opens the way to doubt and it excludes (theistic and atheistic) dogma.
Second, the parts analysing the aphopatic tradition, that is the idea that God cannot be known since it is "something else" and can be described only in negative terms.
I thus take as mine the agnostic spirit of this book. Its attitude of humility towards the unknown and its confession of ignorance nurture my "sense and taste for the Infinite".
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