UNBELIEVABLE: WHY WE BELIEVE AND WHY WE DON’T

Book ID/图书代码： 06545013B62465

English Summary/英文概要： Why believe? What kinds of things do people believe in? How have they come to believe them? And how does what they believe - or disbelieve - shape their lives and the meaning the world has for them? For Graham Ward, who is one of the most innovative writers on contemporary religion, these questions are more than just academic. They go to the heart not only of who but of what we are as human beings. Over the last thirty years, our understandings of mind and consciousness have changed in important ways through exciting new developments in neuroscience. The author addresses this quantum shift by exploring the biology of believing. He offers sustained reflection on perception, cognition, time, emotional intelligence, knowledge and sensation. Though the ’truth’ of belief remains under increasing attack, in a thoroughly secularized context, Ward boldly argues that secularity is itself a form of believing. Pointing to the places where prayer and dreams intersect, this book offers a remarkable journey through philosophy, theology and culture, thereby revealing the true nature of the human condition.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 为何相信？人们又通常会相信哪些事物？他们又是如何逐渐相信这些事物的？而那些他们相信的与不相信的，又是如何塑造了他们当下的生活以及世界赋予他们的意义？格拉汉姆•沃德是当代宗教领域一名极具创新精神的作家，他所提出的这一系列问题绝非单纯的处于学术考量。它们直击我们的内心深处，叩问着我们为何为人，又如何为人。在过去的三十年中，我们对于大脑和意识的理解认知由于精神科学领域振奋人心的新发展，已经产生了重大的变化。而本书作者将通过探索生物学领域的信任问题来为我们阐述这一量子力学领域的变迁。他不断对感知、认识、时间、情商、知识以及知觉进行反思。尽管相信的实质隐藏在不断持续的攻击之下，然而在本文浅显易懂的文字中，沃德大胆发表言论:世俗性其本身便是某种意义上的相信。本书通过指出祷告者与梦境的重叠之处，将我们引入了一趟神奇的伟大之旅，你将通过哲学、神学、文化来揭开人类的真实本性。（DC）

Awards/获奖情况：’When we think of beliefs we think of views and ideas, while (a bit more technically) philosophers speak of ’propositional attitudes’ or ’judgments’. In his extremely original new book Graham Ward explores operations of belief that go much deeper: dispositions (some of which act at the physiological as well as cultural level), prior to conscious attentiveness, and thus informing perception, interpretation and action prior to rationalization. This is a bold and brilliant thesis, cogently worked out by the author, with ramifications well beyond Christian theology.’- Fergus Kerr, OP, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh, author of Immortal Longings: Versions of Transcending Humanity and of Theology after Wittgenstein

‘This is a bold and brilliant thesis, cogently worked out by the author, with ramifications well beyond Christian theology.’- Fergus Kerr, OP, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh ‘remarkable book.’- Gerard Loughlin, Professor of Theology, Durham

About the Author/作者介绍： 格拉汉姆•沃德是一名牛津大学的皇家钦定神学教授。他著有《巴斯》《德瑞达与神学之语》《激进的正统：新神学》（与约翰•米尔班克、凯瑟琳•皮克斯托克合著）《神之城市》《塞尔托阅读者》《文化变迁与宗教沿袭》《真正的宗教》《基督与文化、宗教和政治思想》。

Graham Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford. His books include Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology, Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology (edited with John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock), Cities of God, The Certeau Reader, Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice, True Religion, Christ and Culture and Religion and Political Thought.

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