Book of interviews
by Frédéric Lenoir with Marie Drucker
Robert Laffont, October 2011
Presentation
“When did gods appear in the history of humanity? Are the Jews the inventors of the one God? Why is the figure of God almost always masculine and religions so often misogynistic? Is God a person, a force, an energy, a creative principle? Is the God of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims the same? Who wrote the Bible and the Koran? From Plato to Nietzsche, via Spinoza, Pascal, and Voltaire, what do philosophers say about God? Can faith exist without doubt? Can science prove that God exists or does not exist? What are the arguments of believers and atheists? Are Buddhism and Chinese wisdom religions without gods?” These are some of the questions posed by Marie Drucker to Frédéric Lenoir. Through a lively conversation, the two authors retrace the fabulous history of God in the human epic. Frédéric Lenoir, without avoiding any important subject, delivers an objective, detached analysis, and succeeds in combining intellectual rigor with the pleasure of reading.
Translations
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