About

An Athens & Jerusalem product

Athens & Jerusalem

ERGO is published by Athens & Jerusalem, an imprint that takes its name from Tertullian's question, What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?, and answers it more generously than he did. Athens stands for reasoned argument; Jerusalem for faith. The imprint publishes work in which the two meet. The ERGO deck is its first product.

The deck

ERGO is a playing deck of fifty-two suited cards and two jokers, each suited card carrying a philosophical argument for the existence of God in numbered premises and a conclusion, with the argument's name, its author, and its source. It exists to show a general reader that such arguments exist, that they are many, and that they have stood in the literature for a long time. What it is and how it is arranged is set out at Reading a card; what it holds itself to is at Standards; how to buy it is at Buy.

The making of it

The arguments were traced to their primary sources and reconstructed in plain modern English. The deck is typeset in Garamond and printed in Florida. Its visual register is medieval: the card frames, the borders of this site, and the scriptorium on its home page were all made for it. [OPTIONAL: a sentence on who made it, e.g. "It was conceived and edited by Malcolm Chisholm, a writer on data and information whose interests run to medieval philosophy."]

Writing to us

For anything to do with the deck or this site, including reports of errors, write to info@athensjerusalem.com. Our terms of use and privacy policy are short, and the second is shorter than most, because the site keeps nothing about you.