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Zeus, Jupiter, Jesus and the Catholic Church
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Zeus, Jupiter, Jesus and the Catholic Church

What Good Is a God?
By: Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

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Why get out of bed in the morning? This book finds an answer in Virgil’s Aeneid: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” It connects the Aeneid’s deceitful gods to the Bible’s Devil to reveal an offer of eternal happiness, freely given, not forced.

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Are there always good reasons to get out of bed in the morning? This book argues that there are, citing the line of poetry from Virgil’s Aeneid that is inscribed at the World Trade Center memorial: ‘No day shall erase you from the memory of time’. It traces fascinating parallels between the role played in the Aeneid by deceitful gods and the role played in the Bible by a deceitful Devil, and explains how Jesus, respecting our free will, offers us eternal happiness, but refuses to convert us by force.

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy holds a BA in Classics and Philosophy from Oxford and a PhD in Linguistics from London University. From 1981 until his retirement in 2008, he taught Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, having previously worked in the British Civil Service. He has published five previous books, including The Origins of Complex Language (1999).

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-7551-9
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-7551-6
  • Date of Publication: 2021-11-03

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-9702-4
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-9702-0
  • Date of Publication: 2023-04-22

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-5275-7654-X
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-7654-4
  • Date of Publication: 2023-04-22
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