George Albert Wells: 4 books
Belief and Make-Believe
Critical Reflections On The Sources of Credulity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Why do so many people - sometimes even intelligent people - swallow the preposterous claims of religion? G.A. Wells, the leading freethinker of our time, tries to shed light on this puzzle in his entertaining and enormously learned book, Belief and Make-Believe.
Professor Wells begins by analyzing...
Cutting Jesus Down to Size
What Higher Criticism Has Achieved and Where It Leaves Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In this provocative book, noted scholar G. A. Wells tells the story of Higher Criticism: the close study of the scriptures that reveals difficulties and discrepancies. Wells traces the discipline’s German beginnings, exploring the problems in the New Testament that prompted scholars to revise traditional...
Who was Jesus?
A Critique of the New Testament Record
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
What do we know about the historical origins of Christianity? How reliable are the 27 books of the New testament? Is Jesus a historical or a legendary figure?
In the last 150 years, scholars have established many facts about the New testament, facts still largely unknown to the general public...
What's in a Name?
Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
"Using his probing intelligence to criticize the views of pundits from Locke to Chomsky, from Ayer to religious apologists, G. A. Wells has produced a lively essay on the persistent mistakes that have been made in understanding the relations among things, words, and ideas. The chapter entitled...