Socrates in the city: conversations on ''life, God, and other small topics''

Socrates in the city / Eric Metaxax -- Belief in God in an age of science / Sir John Polkinghourne, FRS, KBE -- Making sense out of suffering / Peter Kreeft -- The importance of fatherhood / Paul Vitz -- Can an atheist be a good citizen? / Fr. Richard John Neuhaus -- Who are we? C.S. Lewis and the question of man / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- The good life: seeking purpose, meaning, and truth in your life / Charles W. Colson -- Simply Christian: why Christianity makes sense / N.T. Wright -- The twilight of atheism: the rise and fall of disbelief in the modern world / Allister McGrath -- The case for civility--and why our future depends on it / Os Guinness -- The language of God: a believer looks at the human genome / Francis S. Collins, MD, PHD -- How good confronts evil: lessons from the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.;A book of essays based on the popular lecture series in New York City offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts about the great questions surrounding life, and includes contributions by Dr. Francis Collins, N.T. Wright, Os Guinness, and George Weigel. 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 Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness 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. 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.