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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525952551 ISBN 13: 9780525952558

Publisher: E P Dutton, 2011

Synopsis

Following the extraordinary success of the New York Times bestseller Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas's latest book offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thought 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, Charles Colson, N.T. Wright, Os Guinness, Peter Kreeft, and Jean Bethke Elshatin have written about extraordinary topics vital to both secular and Christian thinking, such as "Making Sense Out of Suffering," "How Good Confronts Evil," and "Belief in God in an Age of Science." 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.

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HardCover. Pub the Date: October 2011 Pages: 400 in Publisher: Penguin Group. (USA) Incorporated. Following the extraordinary success of the New York Times bestseller Bonhoeffer. Eric Metaxas's latest book offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous during wartime. 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...

Review:

"In Hitler's Germany, a Lutheran pastor chooses resistance and pays with his life . . . Eric Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer's story with passion and theological sophistication, often challenging revisionist accounts that make Bonhoeffer out to be a 'humanist' or ethicist for whom religious doctrine was easily disposable. . . .Metaxas reminds us that there are forms of religion-respectable, domesticated, timid-that may end up doing the devil's work for him." -"The Wall Street Journal" on "Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy"

About this edition

• Publisher: E P Dutton
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0525952551
• ISBN 13: 9780525952558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 382
• Editor: Metaxas Eric