With delightful disrespect and hilarious updated illustrations, the author takes you through the history of Western philosophy and religion. Beginning with classic Greek pigs, the authorpokes good-natured fun as youlearn the essentials of these most important thinkers and schools of thought.See a little band of Methodist pigs fleeing from the wrath to come, a Calvinist pig being saved because he is predestined to be among the elect, a Barthian Pig hearing a resounding “NO” from above, a Deconstuctionist pig interpreting a text, and many others.
Foreword: Let Us Now Praise Famous Pigs VII
I Classic Greek Pigs 1
II Pigs of the Ancient and Medieval Church 15
III Protestant Pigs 25
IV Modern Philosophical Pigs 37
V Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century Pigs 51
Overview
With delightful disrespect and hilarious updated illustrations, the author takes you through the history of Western philosophy and religion. Beginning with classic Greek pigs, the authorpokes good-natured fun as youlearn the essentials of these most important thinkers and schools of thought.See a little band of Methodist pigs fleeing from the wrath to come, a Calvinist pig being saved because he is predestined to be among the elect, a Barthian Pig hearing a resounding “NO” from above, a Deconstuctionist pig ...