The Power and the Glory: The Key Ideas and Crusading Lives of Eight Debaters of Reason vs. Faith

Ideas are the fundamental cause of history, but the actions of individual men and women carry those ideas into society. In the 2,000 years of debate over reason vs. faith, what key ideas did debaters on each side take as their positions? Equally important, what actions did the debaters employ in society to bring their ideas to the world around them and to us, their posterity?

The Power and the Glory answers these questions by examining sample debaters--eight major debaters and various minor ones. Their ideas (a source of power) and their actions (a potential path of glory) are the focus of this book.

Close attention to the ideas and actions of the debaters profiled here may assist today's advocates of reason in a time of peril, a time of resurgence of theocratic totalitarian movements around the world.

The author--an advocate of reason alone--explains each new philosophical or sociological concept as it appears. A combined index/glossary allows readers to easily review key terms. Extensive footnotes and bibliographies open avenues to further reading.