How To Be An Agnostic

Index

liturgy 6, 153–4, 187, 230
Locke, John 238
logos 156–9, 160, 161, 170
Longinus 228
love 6, 45, 105, 127–8, 134–5,
135, 227, 243–5
Lynch, Gordon 68, 69

M-theory 249
McCabe, Herbert 142–3, 167,
242
MacCulloch, Diarmaid 183–4
Magee, Bryan 221
Maitland, Sara 256
Marx, Karl 113–14
mathematics 59–64, 65, 86,
88
meditation 122–5, 126–9, 131,
220
memes 51, 232
Meredith, George 137
Merton, Thomas 118
metaphors, in science 91–3
Midgley, Mary 105, 226
Mill, John Stuart 95
Miller, Jonathan 140
Milton, John 52
mind 89–90
mind/body distinction 236
mindfulness 125–6, 127,
128–36
modernity 115
money analogy 151–2
monkeys 97–9, 103
Montaigne, Michel de 58, 217,
218 , 220
moon 53, 85, 217
morality 9–10, 98–9, 100, 145–6,
219
Moses 175
mountains 245–8, 247
multiverse 65, 72
Murdoch, Iris 135

music 119, 149–50

mystery 58–9, 77, 106, 111,

180–5, 259

myth 105, 111, 115, 156–9,

160

narcissism 127

natural selection 231

naturalistic fallacy 106

nature 120–1, 246

negation 123–4, 172, 181, 184,

197–8, 227–8

neuroscience 93–4, 95

New Ageism 49, 67–71

Newman, John Henry 252–3

Newton, Sir Isaac 48–52, 50 , 54,

71, 73, 156, 232–3

Nicholas of Cusa 175–6, 177 ,

227

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

9–10, 11, 46, 47, 136, 239,

258

no-self concept (anatta) 127

nothing 248–9

Noyes, Alfred 48

oedipal 249–50

Oedipus 20

oratory 209–10

Paley, William 144

parent/church analogy 108–9

Parmenides 85, 86–7, 122

Parthenon 85, 87

Pascal, Blaise 194–6

Paul (play) 199–200

Paul, Saint 199, 215, 238

Penrose, Roger 61, 63–4

personal identity 239–41

Peter, Saint 199

Philosopher’s Stone 54

physics 55–73, 80, 142, 227

piety 47, 83