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02221cam a2200289 a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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4559201 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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AU-EpEBC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20120419152250.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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080422s2008 nyuabf b 001 0 eng |
| 015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER |
| National bibliography number |
GBA866503 |
| Source |
bnb |
| 016 7# - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER |
| Record control number |
014614824 |
| Source |
Uk |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
| International Standard Book Number |
9780977743360 (hbk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
| International Standard Book Number |
0977743365 (hbk.) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
| Original cataloging agency |
OCoLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
OCoLC |
| Modifying agency |
NEMB |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
| Classification number |
212.1/WIT |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
| Personal name |
Witham, Larry, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1952- |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
| Title |
The proof of God : |
| Remainder of title |
the debate that shaped modern belief / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Larry Witham. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Atlas : |
| -- |
Distributed to the trade by W.W. Norton, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
| Extent |
217 p., [16] p. of plates ; |
| Other physical details |
illus. (some col.), map ; hbk ; |
| Dimensions |
16 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-209) and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
| Summary, etc. |
Anselm, Ockham, and Descartes: three thinkers locked in one of Western philosophy's greatest debates. In 1078, Anselm of Bec wrote the most famous proof in Western religious tradition--what we know now as the "ontological argument" for God's existence. Stating that the "idea" and "reality" of God were the same, Anselm provoked enormous controversy through a radical approach: rather than appealing to the Bible, church authority, or the physical senses, he employed the faculties of his mind, crafting a method of logic that paved the way for modern thought. Larry Witham traces our modern-day conceptions of faith and reason back to Anselm's formidable claim. In attempting to "prove God," Anselm unleashed a medieval debate that culminated in William of Ockham, whose notorious "razor" denied all such proofs, limiting knowledge to "things" only. Scrupulously managing fact and theory, Witham tells the story of this intellectual quest across the Middle Ages and how it inspired the West's "first modern philosopher," Rene Descartes. By turns history, biography, and philosophical inquiry, The Proof of God follows one of the seminal arguments of Western belief from its inception to the present.<br/><br/>- Publisher |
| 600 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
| Personal name |
Anselm, |
| Titles and other words associated with a name |
Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1033-1109 |
| General subdivision |
Criticism and interpretation. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
God |
| General subdivision |
Proof |
| -- |
History of doctrines. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Religion |
| General subdivision |
Philosophy |
| -- |
History. |
| 998 ## - LOCAL CONTROL INFORMATION (RLIN) |
| Operator's initials, OID (RLIN) |
EW |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |