36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307456717)

From the author of The Mind-Body Problem a witty and intoxicating novel of ideas that plunges into the great debate between faith and reason.

At the center is Cass Seltzer, a professor of psychology whose book, The Varieties of Religious Illusion, has become a surprise best seller. Dubbed "the atheist with a soul," he wins over the stunning Lucinda Mandelbaum--"the goddess of game theory." But he is haunted by reminders of two people who ignited his passion to understand religion: his teacher Jonas Elijah Klapper, a renowned literary scholar with a suspicious obsession with messianism, and an angelic six-year-old mathematical genius, heir to the leadership of an exotic Hasidic sect.

Hilarious, heartbreaking, and intellectually captivating, 36 Arguments explores the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variety.

Author: Rebecca Goldstein
ISBN-10: 0307456714
ISBN-13: 9780307456717
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2011
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.30w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/20/2011 pg. 24