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The book surveys atheology’s development from ancient thought to the present and analyzes four schools: rationalist, scientific, moral, and civil atheology. Familiarity with these histories and strategies clarifies conflicts among today’s atheist and secularist movements and enables a disciplined examination of atheism’s reasoning strategies in relation to theology.","Systematic Atheology  \nAtheology is the intellectual effort to understand atheism, defend the reasonableness of unbelief, and support nonbelievers in their encounters with religion. This book presents a historical overview of the development of atheology from ancient thought to the present day. It offers in-depth examinations of four distinctive schools of atheological thought: rationalist atheology, scientific atheology, moral atheology, and civil atheology. John R. Shook shows how a familiarity with atheology’s complex histories, forms, and strategies illuminates the contentious features of today’s atheist and secularist movements, which are just as capable of contesting each other as opposing religion. The result is a book that provides a disciplined and philosophically rigorous examination of atheism’s intellectual strategies for reasoning with theology. Systematic Atheology is an important contribution to the philosophy of religion, religious studies, secular studies, and the sociology and psychology of nonreligion.  \nJohn R. Shook is a Research Associate in Philosophy, University at Buffalo, NY, and also Lecturer in Philosophy at Bowie State University, MD. He co-edits the journal Contemporary Pragmatism. Authored or edited books include The God Debates (2010), Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy, and Pragmatism (2014), Dewey’s Social Philosophy (2014), and the Oxford Handbook of Secularism (2017) .  \nRoutledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion  \n8 Divine Intervention  \nMetaphysical and Epistemological Puzzles  \nEvan Fales  \n9 Is Faith in God Reasonable?  \nDebates in Philosophy, Science, and Rhetoric Edited by Corey Miller and Paul Gould  \n10 God and the Multiverse  \nScientific, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives Edited by KlaasJ. Kraay  \n11 Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality  \nAn Intuitionist Account  \nKevin Jung  \n12 Philosophical Approaches to the Devil  \nEdited by Benjamin W. McCraw and Robert Arp  \n13 Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science  \nGregory W. Dawes  \n14 The Arguments of Aquinas  \nA Philosophical View  \nJ. J. MacIntosh  \n15 Philosophical Approaches to Demonology  \nEdited by Benjamin W. McCraw and Robert Arp  \n16 Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism  \nReconceiving the Philosophy of Religion  \nLouise Hickman  \n17 Systematic Atheology  \nAtheism’s Reasoning with Theology  \nJohn R. Shook  \nSystematic Atheology  \nAtheism’s Reasoning with Theology  \nJohn R. Shook  \nFirst published 2018  \nby Routledge  \n711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business  \n© 2018 Taylor & Francis  \nThe right of John R. Shook to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nTrademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested  \nISBN: 978-1-138-07998-4 (hbk)  \nISBN: 978-1-315-11412-5 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon  \nby Apex CoVantage, LLC  \nContents  \nA Prefatory Address to the Reader vii  \n1 The Overture 1  \n2 Atheists and Atheism 9  \n3 Atheology and Theology 33  \n4 Methods and Modes of Atheology 49  \n5 Atheology’s Ancient Heritage 67  \n6 European Atheologies 97  \n7 Rationalist Atheology 135  \n8 Scientific Atheology 161  \n9 Moral Atheology 187  \n10 Civil Atheology 223  \n11 Complete Atheology 251  \nBibliography 255  \nIndex 305  \nA Prefat","cbCaihG3AqBY14QB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihG3AqBY14QB","pdf",1520267,3,1,322,"English","en",105,"# A Prefatory Address to the Reader\n# The Overture\n# Atheists and Atheism\n# Atheology and Theology\n# Methods and Modes of Atheology\n# Atheology’s Ancient Heritage\n# European Atheologies\n# Rationalist Atheology\n# Scientific Atheology\n# Moral Atheology\n# Civil Atheology\n# Complete Atheology\n# Bibliography\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What is atheology, according to the book?\",\"answer\":\"Atheology is described as the intellectual work of understanding atheism, defending the reasonableness of unbelief, and supporting nonbelievers when engaging with religion. 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