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Saving God : religion after idolatry.
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ISBN: 9780691143941 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton Princeton university press

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Saving God
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ISBN: 1282579495 9786612579493 1400830443 9781400830442 0691143943 9780691143941 9780691152615 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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In this book, Mark Johnston argues that God needs to be saved not only from the distortions of the "undergraduate atheists" (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris) but, more importantly, from the idolatrous tendencies of religion itself. Each monotheistic religion has its characteristic ways of domesticating True Divinity, of taming God's demands so that they do not radically threaten our self-love and false righteousness. Turning the monotheistic critique of idolatry on the monotheisms themselves, Johnston shows that much in these traditions must be condemned as false and spiritually debilitating. A central claim of the book is that supernaturalism is idolatry. If this is right, everything changes; we cannot place our salvation in jeopardy by tying it essentially to the supernatural cosmologies of the ancient Near East. Remarkably, Johnston rehabilitates the ideas of the Fall and of salvation within a naturalistic framework; he then presents a conception of God that both resists idolatry and is wholly consistent with the deliverances of the natural sciences. Princeton University Press is publishing Saving God in conjunction with Johnston's forthcoming book Surviving Death, which takes up the crux of supernaturalist belief, namely, the belief in life after death.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.


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Surviving death
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ISBN: 9780691130125 0691130124 9780691130132 0691130132 9781400834600 1400834600 1282936158 9781282936157 9786612936159 6612936150 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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In this extraordinary book, Mark Johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a purely naturalistic account of surviving death. Death threatens our sense of the importance of goodness. The threat can be met if there is, as Socrates said, "something in death that is better for the good than for the bad." Yet, as Johnston shows, all existing theological conceptions of the afterlife are either incoherent or at odds with the workings of nature. These supernaturalist pictures of the rewards for goodness also obscure a striking consilience between the philosophical study of the self and an account of goodness common to Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism: the good person is one who has undergone a kind of death of the self and who lives a life transformed by entering imaginatively into the lives of others, anticipating their needs and true interests. As a caretaker of humanity who finds his or her own death comparatively unimportant, the good person can see through death. But this is not all. Johnston's closely argued claims that there is no persisting self and that our identities are in a particular way "Protean" imply that the good survive death. Given the future-directed concern that defines true goodness, the good quite literally live on in the onward rush of humankind. Every time a baby is born a good person acquires a new face.


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The proud 6th : an illustrated history of the 6th Australian Division, 1939-45
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ISBN: 9781139193351 9780521514118 9781461939740 1461939747 9781107273788 1107273781 0521514118 113919335X 1139882074 110727222X 110727169X 1107275016 1107278279 1107277043 1299841805 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Following Mark Johnston's acclaimed illustrated histories of the 7th and 9th Australian Divisions, this is his long-awaited history of the 6th Australian Division: the first such history ever published. The 6th was a household name during World War II. It was the first division raised in the Second Australian Imperial Force, the first division to go overseas and the first to fight. Its success in that fight, in Libya in 1941, indicated that the standard established in the Great War would be continued. General Blamey and nearly every other officer who became wartime army, corps and divisional commanders were once members of the 6th Division. Through photographs and an authoritative text, this book tells their story and the story of the proud, independent and tough troops they commanded.


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Anzacs in the Middle East : Australian soldiers, their allies and the local people in World War II
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ISBN: 9781139524339 9781107030961 9781107306905 1107306906 9781107314658 1107314658 113952433X 110703096X 9781107309104 1107309107 1107237637 1107301815 1107305896 1299257348 1107312450 9781107237636 9781107301818 9781107305892 9781299257344 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Anzacs in the Middle East is a compelling exploration of the experiences of soldiers who fought in the Middle East during World War II. Spurred by a sense of adventure and duty, they set sail to countries of which they knew very little. The book examines the relationships between Australians and their allies and also how they related to the local people: Greeks, Egyptians, Syrians, Lebanese and Palestinians. Mark Johnston draws on extensive research to provide a new perspective on the famous campaigns at Tobruk and Alamein, as well as significant but less familiar battles at Bardia, Retimo and Damascus. Featuring first-hand accounts and stories from the front line, the book discovers the true nature of the 'larrikin Australian' and is a must-read for anyone interested in Australia's military history. This book is a companion volume to Mark Johnston's previous books, At the Front Line and Fighting the Enemy.


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Stretcher bearer : saving Australians from Gallipoli to Kokoda
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ISBN: 1316191818 1316210324 1316206610 131620846X 131618997X 1316204812 131609197X 1107087198 9781316091975 9781316204818 9781316191811 9781316210321 9781316206614 9781107087194 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Stretcher-bearers is a compelling account of the experience of Australian stretcher-bearers during the First and Second World Wars. Respected military historian, Mark Johnston traces the development of formal stretcher-bearing from its origin in the early nineteenth century under Napoleon to the Second World War. Johnston draws on accounts by stretcher-bearers who worked on the front line, as well as tributes from rescued soldiers, to deepen our understanding of the crucial role these soldiers played in Gallipoli, Palestine, the Western Front in World War I, and in the Middle East and the Pacific in World War II. The narrative is further driven by rich imagery, featuring over 130 full-page photographs. This book provides a generously illustrated, engaging and moving account of the history of the stretcher-bearer, a figure praised by countless Diggers but never previously the subject of a book.


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The Australian Pharmaceutical Subsidy Gambit: Transmuting Deadweight Loss and Oligopoly Rents to Consumer Surplus
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Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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Street trees in Britain : a history
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ISBN: 9781911188230 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford : Windgather Press,

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Stretcher bearer : saving Australians from Gallipoli to Kokoda
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ISBN: 9781316091975 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Anzacs in the Middle East : Australian soldiers, their allies and the local people in World War II
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ISBN: 9781139524339 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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