Bøger af Kent Richter

Inheritor of a magical stone, Christopher finds only the philosophical frustration of owning a glorious power that is impotent in the face of sorrow and suffering. To find answers to his questions, he journeys to the Mountain of God, meeting along the way friendship and wisdom, enemies and death. Companions offer their own answers -- from the mystical to the nihilistic -- and in the end the "answer" of God may not be the kind of answer Christopher wants.

Two (fictional) philosophy professors exchange emails about God, developing arguments that suggest both belief in the greatness and majesty of the Creator and an outraged dissatisfaction with God's distance from the suffering of the world. The result is misotheism, the hatred of God, and, perhaps strangely, a kind of Christianity.

Religion: A Study in Beauty, Truth, and Goodness covers the wide array of elements, including the concepts of ultimate being, scripture, ritual, morality, and beauty, which make up the fascinating entity known as religion. Taking a phenomenological approach that emphasizes the standpoint of the religious believer--a view from the inside of religion--Kent Richter uses the categories of experience, belief, and behavior ("Beauty, Truth, and Goodness") as a way to think about religion in general. This approach helps students understand both the great variety in religious traditions and the internal coherence that religion holds for its practitioners.