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Socrates in the City: Conversations on "Life, God, and Other Small Topics"

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Socrates in the City: Conversations on "Life, God, and Other Small Topics"

Overview

This book is for the seeker in all of us, the collector of wisdom, and the person who asks, “What if?” from the author of Bonhoeffer, Miracles, and Martin Luther

The Greek philosopher Socrates famously said that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Using this as a starting point, Eric Metaxas created a forum encouraging successful professionals to actively think about life’s bigger questions. Thus, Socrates in the City was born.

First presented to standing-room-only crowds in New York City and written by luminaries such as Dr. Francis Collins, Sir John Polkinghorne, and Os Guinness, these original essays grapple with extraordinary topics from “Making Sense out of Suffering” to “Belief in God in an Age of Science.” No question is too big—in fact, the bigger, the better—because nowhere is it written that finding the answers to life’s biggest questions shouldn’t be exciting and even, perhaps, fun.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101550403
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/13/2011
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Eric Metaxas is a bestselling author whose biographies, children's books, and works of popular apologetics have been translated into multiple languages around the world. He has been frequently featured as a cultural commentator on CNN and the Fox News Channel and has been featured on many radio programs, including NPR's Morning Edition and Talk of the Nation, The Hugh Hewitt Show, and The Bob Grant Show.

Table of Contents

Socrates in the City Eric Metaxas vii

Belief in God in an Age of Science John Polkinghorne 1

Making Sense out of Suffering Peter Kreeft 37

The Importance of Fatherhood Paul Vitz 77

Can an Atheist Be a Good Citizen? Richard John Neuhaus 105

Who are We? C. S. Lewis and the Question of Man Jean Bethke Elshtain 131

The Good Life: Seeking Purpose, Meaning, and Truth in Your Life Charles W. Colson 159

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense N. T. Wright 193

The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World Alister McGrath 235

The Case for Civility-and Why Our Future Depends on It Os Guinness 269

The Language of God: A Believer Looks at the Human Genome Francis S. Collins 297

How Good Confronts Evil: Lessons from the Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Eric Metaxas 327

Acknowledgments 359

Speaker Biographies 361

Selected Published Works 369

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