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"Religion," this book begins, "is a mistrusted word now," and Nicholas Mosley, in this engaging meditation, seeks to repair that trust. Rather than trying to convince or compel the reader to accept his beliefs, he describes how religion functions in the modern world. Elsewhere, Mosley has written, "There is a subject nowadays which is taboo in the way that sexuality was once taboo, which is to talk about life as if it had any meaning." In this book, he describes religion as the source of that meaning. Despair is the fashionable attitude, but it is one Mosley, here and in his many novels, rejects in favor of a cautious optimism. He writes not to persuade, but to explain a worldview that is refreshing for the hope and intelligence it contains.

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"Mosley is the most serious and brilliant of Britain's novelists of ideas". - Times (London) "On of the most compelling writers in the English language" - Joyce Carol Oates"

Experience & Religion: A Lay Essay in Theology

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      Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/11/2006
      ISBN13: 9781564784247, 978-1564784247
      ISBN10: 156478424X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      "Religion," this book begins, "is a mistrusted word now," and Nicholas Mosley, in this engaging meditation, seeks to repair that trust. Rather than trying to convince or compel the reader to accept his beliefs, he describes how religion functions in the modern world. Elsewhere, Mosley has written, "There is a subject nowadays which is taboo in the way that sexuality was once taboo, which is to talk about life as if it had any meaning." In this book, he describes religion as the source of that meaning. Despair is the fashionable attitude, but it is one Mosley, here and in his many novels, rejects in favor of a cautious optimism. He writes not to persuade, but to explain a worldview that is refreshing for the hope and intelligence it contains.

      Trade Review
      "Mosley is the most serious and brilliant of Britain's novelists of ideas". - Times (London) "On of the most compelling writers in the English language" - Joyce Carol Oates"

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