e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Library Journal Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Hägglund, Martin.
Subjects
Finite, The.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Secularism.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Hägglund, Martin.
by title:
This life : secular ...
by call number:
110 H999t
Search the Web
Hägglund, Martin.
Finite, The.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Secularism.
MARC Display
This life :
secular
faith
and
spiritual
freedom
/ Martin Hägglund.
by
Hägglund, Martin.
Pantheon Books, 2019.
Call #:
110 H999t
Subjects
Finite, The.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Secularism.
ISBN:
9781101870402 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Secular
faith
and
spiritual
freedom
Description:
450 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Faith
-- Love -- Responsibility -- Natural and
spiritual
freedom
-- The value of our finite time -- Democratic socialism -- Our only life.
Summary:
"A profound, original, and accessible book that argues that a
faith
not in God or eternal life, but in the finite, temporal life we lead here on earth is one that gives that life far greater depth of meaning. A manifesto for a truly
secular
faith
that speaks eloquently to both believers and agnostics alike. The philosopher and critic Martin Hägglund believes that we need a new way of thinking about
faith
. In contrast to the traditional religious
faith
in eternity, he proposes a
secular
faith
in the value of living in time. He argues that the concept of an eternal heaven actually renders our mortal life meaningless since it assumes that our ultimate aims should be to escape it. Engaging writers and thinkers as diverse as C. S. Lewis, Kierkegaard, St. Augustine, Nietzsche, Martin Luther, and even Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hägglund provides not only a critique of religious ideals, but also a positive, alternative understanding of the beliefs and values that can motivate us to live lives of meaning in the here and now."--From publisher.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Due Date
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
110 H999t
Adult books
Checked out
Jul 25, 2024
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.