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

by Metaxas, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780525952558
• ISBN10: 0525952551
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-13
• Publisher: E P Dutton

Summary

Following the extraordinary success of the New York Timesbestseller Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas's latest book offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts about the great questions surrounding us all today. The Greek philosopher Socrates famously said that "the unexamined life is not worth living." Taking this as a starting point, Eric Metaxas founded a speaking series that encouraged busy and successful professionals to attend forums and think actively about the bigger questions in life. Thus Socrates in the City: Conversations on "Life, God, and Other Small Topics"was born. This book is for the seeker in all of us, the collector of wisdom, and the person who asks "What if?" Within this collection of original essays that were first given to standing-room-only crowds in New York City are serious thinkers taking on Life, God, Evil, Redemption, and other small topics. Luminaries such as Dr. Francis Collins, Sir John Polkinghorne, Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, N.T. Wright, Os Guinness, and Peter Kreeft, and George Weigel have written about extraordinary topics vital to both secular and Christian thinking, such as "Making Sense Out of Suffering," "The Concept of Evil after 9/11," and "Can a Scientist Pray?" No question is too big-in fact, the bigger, the harder, the more complex the better. These essays are both thought-provoking and entertaining, because nowhere is it written that finding answers to life's biggest questions shouldn't be exciting and even, perhaps, fun.

Author Biography

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	p. vii
Belief in God in an Age of Science	p. 1
Making Sense out of Suffering	p. 37
The Importance of Fatherhood	p. 77
Can an Atheist Be a Good Citizen?	p. 105
Who Are We? C. S. Lewis and the Question of Man	p. 131
The Good Life: Seeking Purpose, Meaning, and Truth in Your Life	p. 159
Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense	p. 193
The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World	p. 235
The Case for Civilityùand Why Our Future Depends on It	p. 269
The Language of God: A Believer Looks at the Human Genome	p. 297
How Good Confronts Evil: Lessons from the Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer	p. 327
Acknowledgments	p. 359
Speaker Biographies	p. 361
Selected Published Works	p. 369
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