Not in God's Name

Confronting Religious Violence

De: Jonathan Sacks

Narrado por: Jonathan Sacks

Despite predictions of continuing secularisation, the 21st century has witnessed a surge of religious extremism and violence in the name of God.

In this powerful and timely book, Jonathan Sacks explores the roots of violence and its relationship to religion, focusing on the historic tensions between the three Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Drawing on arguments from evolutionary psychology, game theory, history, philosophy, ethics and theology, Sacks shows how a tendency toward violence can subvert even the most compassionate of religions. Through a close reading of key biblical texts at the heart of the Abrahamic faiths, Sacks challenges those who claim that religion is intrinsically a cause of violence and argues that theology must become part of the solution if it is not to remain at the heart of the problem.

This book is a rebuke to all those who kill in the name of the God of life, wage war in the name of the God of peace, hate in the name of the God of love and practise cruelty in the name of the God of compassion.

For the sake of humanity and the free world, the time has come for people of all faiths and none to stand together and declare: Not in God's Name.

©2016 Jonathan Sacks (P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton

Sacks does it again.

One of our generations most sensible and clear sighted jewish thinkers takes a look at religion and violence. Dafka his presentation of the more general issues around the human urge to violence are better than the Jewish bits, because he's trying to do too much by showing the Jewish tradition in light of his liberal values. But it's all great.