And Man created God : Is God a human invention

Main Author:	Banks, Robert.
Published:	Oxford : Lion 2011
Subjects:	GOD (CHRISTIANITY).
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Table of Contents:

pt. 1. Back on the public agenda. The renewal of an old attack on religion
pt. 2. Early advocates of a sceptical view. A new challenge to the gods
Its later uptake and turnaround
pt. 3. Four leading modern approaches. God as the product of human wishes : Ludwig Feuerbach
God as a substitute for oppressive conditions : Karl Marx
God as a projection of repressed desires : Sigmund Freud
God as the symbol of human potential : Erich Fromm
pt. 4. A time for self-examination. Facing up to the personal challenge.