A Place for Truth – Leading Thinkers Explore Life`s Hardest Questions

Dallas Willard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

323 Seiten

2010
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-3845-5 (ISBN)

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Many today pursue knowledge and even wisdom. But what about truth? In an age that disputes whether truth can be universalized beyond one's own personal experience, it seems quaint to speak of finding truth. But whether in the ivory towers of the academy or in the midst of our everyday lives, we continue to seek after the true, the beautiful and the good.
Since its founding at Harvard in 1992, The Veritas Forum has provided a place for the university world to explore the deepest questions of truth and life. What does it mean to be human? Does history have a purpose? Is life meaningful? Can rational people believe in God? Now gathered in one volume are some of The Veritas Forum's most notable presentations, with contributions from Francis Collins, Tim Keller, N. T. Wright, Mary Poplin and more. Volume editor Dallas Willard introduces each presentation, highlighting its significance and putting it in context for us today. Also included are selected question and answer sessions with the speakers from the original forum experiences.
Come eavesdrop on some of today's leading Christian thinkers and their dialogue partners. And consider how truth might find a place in your own life.

Dallas Willard is professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. He is the author of such books as The Divine Conspiracy, Renovation of the Heart and Hearing God.

Foreword By Harry Lewis, Harvard University

Preface By Daniel Cho, Executive Director, The Veritas Forum

Introduction By Dallas Willard

Truth

1. Is There Life After Truth?

Richard John Neuhaus

2. Time For Truth

Os Guinness

3. Reason for God: The Exclusivity of Truth

Timothy J. Keller

Faith and Science

4. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief

Francis S. Collins

5. The New Atheists and the Meaning of Life

Alister McGrath and David J. Helfand

6. A Scientist Who Looked and Was Found

Hugh Ross

Atheism

7. The Psychology of Atheism

Paul C. Vitz

8. Nietzsche Versus Jesus Christ

Dallas Willard

Meaning and Humanity

9. Moral Mammals: Does Atheism or Theism Provide the Best Foundation for Human Worth and Morality?

Peter Singer and John Hare

10 .Living Machines: Can Robots Become Human?

Rodney Brooks and Rosalind Picard

11. The Sense of an Ending

Jeremy S. Begbie

Christian Worldview

12. Simply Christian

N. T. Wright

Social Justice

13. Why Human Rights Are Impossible Without Religion

John Warwick Montgomery

14. Radical Marxist, Radical Womanist, Radical Love: What Mother Teresa Taught Me about Social Justice

Mary Poplin

15. The Whole Gospel for the Whole Person

Ronald J. Sider

Notes

Contributors

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2010
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	525 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	0-8308-3845-7 / 0830838457
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-3845-5 / 9780830838455
Zustand	Neuware