Born to wonder : exploring our deepest questions---why are we here and why does it matter? / Alister McGrath. [print]

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McGrath, Alister E, 1953- [Author]

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9781496436207
1496436202

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BD450 .M3477 2020
BD450.M478.B676 2020

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Contents:

PART 1: WONDERING ABOUT OURSELVES Born to wonder: Asking questions; hoping for answers Who are we?: Wondering about human nature Human identity: Mapping the landscape

PART 2: WONDERING ABOUT LIFE: THE HUMAN QUEST FOR MEANING Pilgrims seeking a "Big Picture": The balcony and the road Searching for meaning: Why we need more than just facts Meaning: Discovery or invention? When meaning fails: Doubt, trauma, and disbelief Wondering about nature: The imaginative roots of science At home in the universe?: Wondering about our place in the cosmos

PART 3: WONDERING ABOUT OUR FUTURE What's wrong with us?: Why we need the idea of sin Humanisms: Secular and religious The myth of progress: Reshaping humanity Endings: Some brief musings

Summary: "In Born to Wonder, Alister McGrath, a prolific Oxford scholar, scientist, and theologian, explores the deepest mystery at the heart of life itself. Life is a gift. We never asked to be born. Yet here we are, living in this strange world of space and time, trying to work out what it's all about before the darkness closes in and extinguishes us. We are adrift on a misty, grey sea of ignorance, seeking a sun-kissed island of certainty, on which we might hope to find clear answers to our deepest and most poignant questions. What is the point of life? Why are we here? And what is it about us that makes us want to ask these questions? As far as we know, we're the only species on earth that asks these questions, and dares to hope that we might find an answer. It seems that we are born to wonder, not merely to exist. From time to time, all of us find ourselves overwhelmed by a sense of awe or mystery, often when confronted with the beauty of nature, whether it is a mountain stream or the vast expanse of ocean waters. That is when we see a flicker of a grander vision of reality, perhaps lying beyond the horizons of our experience. It is as if, for only a moment, a veil is removed, and we catch a half-glimpsed sight of a promised land, waiting to be mapped and explored. This sense of wonder fuels much of humanity's creativity and its search for understanding."

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"Previously published in 2017 as The Great Mystery: Science, God and the Human Quest for Meaning by Hodder & Stoughton under ISBN 978-1-473-63431-2."

PART 1: WONDERING ABOUT OURSELVES Born to wonder: Asking questions; hoping for answers Who are we?: Wondering about human nature Human identity: Mapping the landscape

PART 3: WONDERING ABOUT OUR FUTURE What's wrong with us?: Why we need the idea of sin Humanisms: Secular and religious The myth of progress: Reshaping humanity Endings: Some brief musings

"In Born to Wonder, Alister McGrath, a prolific Oxford scholar, scientist, and theologian, explores the deepest mystery at the heart of life itself. Life is a gift. We never asked to be born. Yet here we are, living in this strange world of space and time, trying to work out what it's all about before the darkness closes in and extinguishes us. We are adrift on a misty, grey sea of ignorance, seeking a sun-kissed island of certainty, on which we might hope to find clear answers to our deepest and most poignant questions. What is the point of life? Why are we here? And what is it about us that makes us want to ask these questions? As far as we know, we're the only species on earth that asks these questions, and dares to hope that we might find an answer. It seems that we are born to wonder, not merely to exist. From time to time, all of us find ourselves overwhelmed by a sense of awe or mystery, often when confronted with the beauty of nature, whether it is a mountain stream or the vast expanse of ocean waters. That is when we see a flicker of a grander vision of reality, perhaps lying beyond the horizons of our experience. It is as if, for only a moment, a veil is removed, and we catch a half-glimpsed sight of a promised land, waiting to be mapped and explored. This sense of wonder fuels much of humanity's creativity and its search for understanding."

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