Can I Believe?
Read by
Tom Parks
Release:
02/23/2021
Release:
02/23/2021
Release:
02/23/2021
Runtime:
7h 13m
Runtime:
7h 13m
Runtime:
7h 13m
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“Here is a book for everyone who wants their life to be in harmony with reality. If you are ready for your beliefs—and your reasons for choosing them—to be challenged to the core, then you should read this.”
Andrew Briggs, professor, University of Oxford
Maybe Christianity is actually true. Maybe it is what believers say it is. But at least two problems make the thoughtful person hesitate.
First, there are so many other options. How could one possibly make one's way through them to anything like a rational and confident conclusion? Second, why do so many people choose to be Christian in the face of so many reasons not to be Christian? Yes, many people grow up in Christian homes and in societies, but many more do not. Yet Christianity has become the most popular religion in the world. Why?
This book begins by taking on the initial challenge as it outlines a process: how to think about religion in a responsible way, rather than settling for such soft vagaries as "faith" and "feeling." It then clears away a number of misunderstandings from the basic story of the Christian religion, misunderstandings that combine to domesticate this startling narrative and thus to repel reasonable people who might otherwise be intrigued.
Grounded in scholarship but never ponderous, Can I Believe? refuses to dodge the hard questions as it welcomes the intelligent inquirer to give Christianity at least one good look.
First, there are so many other options. How could one possibly make one's way through them to anything like a rational and confident conclusion? Second, why do so many people choose to be Christian in the face of so many reasons not to be Christian? Yes, many people grow up in Christian homes and in societies, but many more do not. Yet Christianity has become the most popular religion in the world. Why?
This book begins by taking on the initial challenge as it outlines a process: how to think about religion in a responsible way, rather than settling for such soft vagaries as "faith" and "feeling." It then clears away a number of misunderstandings from the basic story of the Christian religion, misunderstandings that combine to domesticate this startling narrative and thus to repel reasonable people who might otherwise be intrigued.
Grounded in scholarship but never ponderous, Can I Believe? refuses to dodge the hard questions as it welcomes the intelligent inquirer to give Christianity at least one good look.
Release:
2021-02-23
2021-02-23
2021-02-23
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
7h 13m
7h 13m
7h 13m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9781696603058
9781665189521
9781665189514
Publisher:
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
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