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The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West. By Mark Lilla. Knopf2007. Pp. 352. $17.16. ISBN: 1-400-04367-0.

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The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West. By Mark Lilla. Knopf2007. Pp. 352. $17.16. ISBN: 1-400-04367-0.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

George W. Dent Jr.
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , 2008 , pp. 257 - 263
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2008

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1. See generally Grant, Edward, God and Reason in the Middle Ages (Cambridge U. Press 2001)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. See Hume, David, A Treatise Upon Human Nature bk. 3, pt 1 (1739)Google Scholar.

3. Hume, David, A Treatise on Human Nature, quoted in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy 342 (Audi, Robert ed., Cambridge U. Press 1995)Google Scholar.

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