The Journey: Our Quest for Faith and Meaning

by Guinness, OS; Koloszyc, Ginger; Lee-Thorp, Karen; Guinness, Os; Lee-Thorp, Karen

• ISBN13: 9781576831601
• ISBN10: 1576831604
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Tyndale House Pub

Summary

Sometimes they surface during moments of thoughtful reflection. Frequently they are triggered by an experience that stops us in our tracks. They can even surprise us in the midst of simple and innocent pleasures. The weighty questions of life are seldom far off. What is the meaning of my life? How should I live it? Where did I come from? What is my eventual destiny? To invest time searching for answers is an ancient and essential exercise. It is to embark on the most important journey of our lives.

Author Biography

Dr. Os Guinness is a senior fellow of The Trinity Forum. Born in China and a graduate of Oxford, he has written and edited more than twenty books His seminars with The Trinity Forum led to the writing of the Trinity Forum Study Series (NavPress). A former resident of England and Switzerland, Dr. Guinness lives in McLean, Virginia Karen Lee-Thorp is the author of more than fifty study guides. A graduate of Yale University, Karen has spent two decades studying, speaking on, and writing about the learning process. She lives in Brea, California

Table of Contents

The Trinity Forum Study Series
Not So Much a Book as a Way of Thinking	7	(6)
Introduction---The Journey	13	(212)
A Time For Questions	25	(5)
Point to Ponder: ``A World Within the World that Makes a World of Difference''	27	(3)
``The Parable of the Cave''	30	(7)
Plato
``Experiences in a Concentration Camp''	37	(9)
Viktor Frankl
Point to Ponder: ``The Real Divide Is Between the Serious and the Indifferent''	44	(2)
``Diversion''	46	(14)
Blaise Pascal
Goethe, Faust	50	(6)
Point to Ponder: ``Jolted by Life''	56	(4)
The Weight of Glory	60	(4)
C. S. Lewis
``Signals of Transcendence''	64	(5)
Peter L. Berger
The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton	69	(6)
G. K. Chesterton
``The Fatal Flaw of Liberalism''	75	(4)
W. H. Auden
A Time For Answers	79	(5)
Point to Ponder: ``When Bad Things Happen to Good People''	82	(2)
``Remembering Auschwitz''	84	(16)
Arnost Lustig
The Gospel of Buddha, ``The Three Woes''	88	(12)
It's All in the Playing	100	(3)
Shirley MacLaine
``A Free Man's Worship''	103	(5)
Bertrand Russell
The Plague	108	(6)
Albert Camus
``Some Thoughts''	114	(6)
C. S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe	120	(5)
C. S. Lewis
``Letter from Birmingham Jail''	125	(9)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Point to Ponder: ``The Image and the Mirror Image''	132	(2)
``The Re-awakening of Paganism''	134	(2)
Heinrich Heine
``The Parable of the Madman''	136	(5)
Friedrich Nietzsche
A Time For Evidences	141	(5)
Point to Ponder: ``The Prelude to Confirmation Is Disconfirmation''	144	(2)
``Were Hiroshima and Nagasaki Illusory?''	146	(2)
Robert M. Pirsig
``The World Is Dew''	148	(2)
Issa
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin	150	(9)
Charles Darwin
Point to Ponder: ``Truth---The New Obscenity''	154	(5)
``The Flag of the World''	159	(5)
G. K. Chesterton
``The Mirror of Evil''	164	(11)
Eleonore Stump
``What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?''	175	(8)
C. S. Lewis
The Gospel of Mark, ``A Man Through the Roof''	181	(2)
A Time For Commitment	183	(5)
Point to Ponder: ``Step, Leap, or Wager?''	186	(2)
``The Wager''	188	(12)
Blaise Pascal
The Apostle Paul, ``Saul Becomes Paul''	197	(3)
Surprised by Joy	200	(9)
C. S. Lewis
Point to Ponder: ``Always Two Options''	207	(2)
``Charlene: A Teaching Case''	209	(2)
M. Scott Peck
``In San Lorenzo''	211	(3)
Kenneth Clark
Ends and Means	214	(6)
Aldous L. Huxley
Point to Ponder: ``Journeying to Arrive''	217	(3)
Letters to Freya	220	(5)
Helmuth James von Moltke
For Further Reading	225	(2)
Reader's Guide	227