Index
Dionysius 181
Diotima 40–1, 244–5
Dixon, A.C. 11
DNA 92
Dominic, Saint 148
Dostoevsky, Fyodor 185–6, 193
dualism 236
Durham Cathedral 6, 7
Eastern religions 13, 68, 122
Eckhart, Meister 177–8, 179,
184, 227
ecstasy 177–8
ego
and Self 119–20, 134
Einstein, Alfred 55, 61–2, 83
elenchus 35, 125, 133, 226
emergence 64–7, 70
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 205
emotional contagion 96
empathy 96–7, 99, 102, 103, 106
Empedocles 85, 86–7
Enlightenment 13, 140
Epicureanism 34, 213, 214–15,
216
Eros 40–1, 244
ethics 85–106
ethos 232–3
Euripides 24
Euthyphro 35–7
evangelicalism 160–1, 254
evil, problem of 185–93
evolution 13, 15, 77–8, 231–2
existence 151, 180, 183, 198,
225, 242
extra-terrestrial life 56–7
facts, agnostic spirit and 118,
233
fairness 97–9
faith 16, 46, 183, 194, 200, 229,
259
Fara, Patricia 49
Fauré, Gabriel 190
Faustian pact 91–2, 93, 99
Fearn, Nicholas 141–2
fi deism 180
fi ne-tuning 64–5, 70, 72
Fletcher, Paul 161
fl ies 75, 76–7, 76
Foucault, Michel 64, 106,
219–20, 239, 256, 257
Frayn, Michael 64
Freud, Sigmund 239, 249–50,
251 , 258
friendship 30, 174, 204
Frith, Chris 96–7, 99
fundamentalism 9, 11, 136, 142,
153, 162, 164–6Galileo 59–60, 71
General Relativity, theory of 61
gift 150–2
God 3, 12, 17, 51, 136
and atheists 139–46
death of 8, 9, 13, 118, 136
and doctrine of the
Trinity 155, 159–60
and goodness 36–7, 38, 145–6,
187, 222
intervention of 51, 52
judgement of 45
(non)existence of 44, 45,
56, 62, 63, 116, 143–7, 168,
168–9, 191, 194, 227, 243,
251–2, 253
prayer to 233–4
proofs of 17, 38, 143–6, 147,
168, 193
and theists 159–64
unknowability of 6, 142–7,
151, 152, 153, 155, 164,
167–85, 194, 197–8, 200,
223–5, 245
wagering on 193–5
God particle 56