Confronting the Predicament of Belief

Walters, James W.

ISBN 10: 1725283603 / ISBN 13: 9781725283602

Published by Wipf and Stock 2020-09, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Confronting the Predicament of Belief
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock 2020-09
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1725283603
• ISBN 13: 9781725283602
• Binding: PF
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Instead of suppressing doubts about religious claims, what if we engage them head-on? Imagine theologians who welcome the uncomfortable questions rather than immunizing their proposals from criticisms. What happens when discussions of the deepest issues—God and science, faith and doubt, suffering and evil, death and resurrection—are guided by the real-life challenges of believing and living in today’s world? The probing queries and constructive replies published here for the first time invite you into the living experience of doubt and faith, the spiritual quest of our age. They invite readers to consider not only what they believe, but also how they hold their beliefs . . . and what they do with them in everyday life.

About the Authors

James W. Walters is Professor of Religion and Bioethics at Loma Linda University.

Philip Clayton is the Ingraham Professor of Theology at Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, CA.

Steven Knapp is the sixteenth president of the George Washington University in Washington, DC, where he is also a professor of English. Before assuming his current position in 2007, he served as dean of arts and sciences and then as provost of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland; before that, he taught English literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of two books and author or co-author of numerous articles and lectures on literature, literary theory, philosophy, and religion. Dr. Knapp earned his bachelor's degree at Yale University and his master's and doctoral degrees at Cornell University. Outside the academy, he has been active in a wide range of community and religious affairs.