36 Arguments for the Existence of God

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by Rebecca Goldstein

From the author of The Mind-Body Problem: a witty and intoxicating novel of ideas that plunges into the great debate between faith and reason.

At the center is Cass Seltzer, a professor of psychology whose book, The Varieties of Religious Illusion, has become a surprise best seller. Dubbed “the atheist with a soul,” he wins over the stunning Lucinda Mandelbaum—“the goddess of game theory.” But he is haunted by reminders of two people who ignited his passion to understand religion: his teacher Jonas Elijah Klapper, a renowned literary scholar with a suspicious obsession with messianism, and an angelic six-year-old mathematical genius, heir to the leadership of an exotic Hasidic sect.

Hilarious, heartbreaking, and intellectually captivating, 36 Arguments explores the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variety.

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It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch.

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It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch.

— Rebecca Goldstein, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God