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008			200127s2020 ilu b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781496436207
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050	0	0	_aBD450.M478.B676 2020
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100	1		_aMcGrath, Alister E., _d1953- _e1
245	1	0	_aBorn to wonder : _bexploring our deepest questions---why are we here and why does it matter? / _cAlister McGrath. _hPR
260			_aCarol Stream, Illinois : _bTyndale Momentum, _c(c)2020.
300			_a310 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"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."
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aPART 1: WONDERING ABOUT OURSELVES -- _tBorn to wonder: Asking questions; hoping for answers -- _tWho are we?: Wondering about human nature -- _tHuman identity: Mapping the landscape
505	0	0	_aPART 2: WONDERING ABOUT LIFE: THE HUMAN QUEST FOR MEANING -- _tPilgrims seeking a "Big Picture": The balcony and the road -- _tSearching for meaning: Why we need more than just facts -- _tMeaning: Discovery or invention? -- _tWhen meaning fails: Doubt, trauma, and disbelief -- _tWondering about nature: The imaginative roots of science -- _tAt home in the universe?: Wondering about our place in the cosmos
505	0	0	_aPART 3: WONDERING ABOUT OUR FUTURE -- _tWhat's wrong with us?: Why we need the idea of sin -- _tHumanisms: Secular and religious -- _tThe myth of progress: Reshaping humanity -- _tEndings: Some brief musings
520	0		_a"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." _c~ Provided by publisher.
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650		0	_aLife.
650		0	_aPhilosophical anthropology.
650		0	_aHuman beings.
650		0	_aCosmology.
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