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Adler took a long time to make up his mind about theological issues. When he wrote How to Think About God: A Guide for the Twentieth-Century Pagan in 1980, he claimed to consider himself the pagan of the book's subtitle.
Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001) was early in life an agnostic American philosopher of Jewish descent (he referred to himself as a pagan) who was received into the Catholic Church at the age of 96, two years before his death.
Sep 23, 2013 · Born of Jewish parents, in Adler's pre-college years he was an ethnic-cultural Jew. In college and after he became an agnostic/pagan Thomistic philosopher. Even so, he attended church services with his first wife, Helen, an Episcopalian, after their marriage in the mid-1920s.
He himself was a pagan at one time, having been raised in a Jewish household, but not believing in the Jewish faith. He recounts how reading the works of Thomas Aquinas excited him with the idea that a logical proof for the existence of God might be constructed.
Oct 22, 2013 · Adler wouldn’t put down the mantle of pagan until 1984, when he became an Episcopalian, the denomination of his second wife, Caroline.
Mar 1, 1980 · Written by a pagan for pagans (though I think everyone exploring God and organized religion should read it), Adler uses logic and reason, while avoiding faith and science, to explore whether the existence of a supreme being is possible.
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Dr. Adler provides a nondogmatic exposition of the principles behind the belief that God, or some other supernatural cause, has to exist in some form. Through concise and lucid arguments, Dr. Adler shapes a highly emotional and often erratic conception of God into a credible and understandable concept for the lay person.
