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Book Report - “The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures”

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Book Report - “The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures”

Introduction

In this disenchanted world, the author Roger Scruton explores the concept and place of God. The argument of the author is basically the response of the growing concerns of the atheist cultures which is now growing. Scruton refutes the claim that the presence of human serves no purpose in this world and presented the argument that the transcendental and the sacred are real presence, which in face conveys the meaning of the human existence. The following paper is going to summarize the book “The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures” by Professor Roger Scruton. The author is the Resident Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at American Enterprise Institute, Washington and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford respectively. Under the authorship of Roger Scruton, number of books has been released including The West and the Rest, England: An Elegy, News from Somewhere and Gentle Regrets and Sexual Desire. All of his work was published by Continuum.

Book Summary

The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures presents the bequest of Lord Gifford which was sponsored in order to diffuse and promote the knowledge related to the concept of God. Despite that fact that Scruton do not bear membership to any Church or any other religious organization, he has a belief (reflected in the book) that the most important relation in a person's life is between man and God. However, atheists and scientists to a larger extent rejects God as the compatible authority, but in the book Scruton asked a simple question to his reader what will lose if they started to believe the notion presented by atheists and modern sciences. However, the counter argument available by the atheists which has been acknowledged as original proceeds by the act of systematic aggression not in favor of the Face, not only the face of human but the real face of the world. However, Scruton in his book stressed that contemporary atheism is based on one simple belief that this will help them escape the Day of Judgment. Though, Scruton shows that no one will be spared from the eye of judgment in afterlife, regardless of his or her belief. Roger Scruton believes that atheism is nothing but an escape boat for many to escape from the eye of judgment through blotting the face and most vigorously the Face of ...