Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious
Autor Ross Douthaten Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 feb 2025
"Truly a Mere Christianity for the 21st century"--World magazine
From the host of the Interesting Times podcast
Do you ever wish you had more faith? Here is a blueprint for thinking your way from doubt to belief.
As a columnist for the New York Times who writes often about spiritual topics for a skeptical audience, Ross Douthat understands that many of us want to have more faith than we do. Douthat argues that in light of what we know today it should be harder to not have faith than to have it.
With empathy, clarity, and rigor, Douthat explores:
- Why nonbelief requires ignoring what our reasoning faculties tell us about the world
- How modern scientific developments make a religious worldview more credible, not less
- Why it's entirely reasonable to believe in mystical and supernatural realities
- How an open-minded religious quest should proceed amid the diversity of religious faiths
- How Douthat's own Christianity is informed by his blueprint for belief
With clear and straightforward arguments, Believe shows how religious belief makes sense of the order of the cosmos and our place within it, illuminates the mystery of consciousness, and explains the persistent reality of encounters with the supernatural. Highly relevant for our current moment, Believe offers a pathway for thinking your way from doubt into belief, from uncertainty about our place in the universe into a confidence that we are here for a reason.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780310367581
ISBN-10: 0310367581
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 158 x 237 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: ZONDERVAN
Colecția Zondervan
Locul publicării:Grand Rapids, United States
ISBN-10: 0310367581
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 158 x 237 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: ZONDERVAN
Colecția Zondervan
Locul publicării:Grand Rapids, United States
Recenzii
At a time when strange things are happening, a time when even notorious atheists are willing to call themselves cultural Christians, there are some amazing opportunities for unexpected conversations between Christians and those outside the faith. That's where Ross Douthat's book is so useful. Like a modern-day Greek apologist, he makes a gentle and thoughtful case for religion in general and Christianity in particular. Christian readers will be helped both by his style and content to discuss their faith with the curious, and the curious will find much to make them think. And all of this comes with Douthat's customary clarity, wit, and precision.
If you are exhausted by the arid desert island of secular disenchantment, thirsting for transcendence but doubtful of your capacity to find God, reading Ross Douthat's Believe is like discovering a bridge to hope. Though he's a convinced Christian (who explains why in his luminous final chapter), Douthat's goal here to make basic theism more reasonable than atheism, and embracing a religious life engaged with a particular enduring tradition more sensible than spiritual novelty or moralistic therapeutic deism. Douthat's calm, analytical temperament, his intellectual humility, and his charity toward opponents make him a companionable guide for honest seekers. Believe is not only Ross Douthat's best book but also one that will make a life-changing difference for untold numbers of people trapped in epistemic bondage. For them, Believe is a golden key that will open a cell door that has been locked from the inside.
In his famously readable style, Ross Douthat makes a persuasive case for traditional religious belief, one perfectly attuned to our cultural moment. Recognizing that the aggressive antireligious polemics of the New Atheists have worn thin, Douthat provides a road map for assessing 'the God question' that will appeal to those who may lament the loss of a religious foundation for culture (and their own lives), but who cannot get over the line to personal belief. By highlighting new scientific discoveries that reveal a deep, underlying order and design in the universe and aspects of common experience that we often take for granted, Douthat shows that theism explains signposts to ultimate reality that the popular default worldview of secular materialism does not. Using an accessible commonsense style of reasoning, Douthat renders plausible and compelling what many today assume is implausible and untenable: traditional religious belief. A powerful, highly readable, commonsense guide to the most pressing questions of human existence.
Ross Douthat reveals how the growing ignorance of Christianity has created a void in modern life. With sharp clarity, he shows that the absence of faith isn't neutral, it's a loss that reshapes identity and the way the world is understood. This is an invitation to rediscover what has been overlooked.
Self-recommending. Some would say God recommends it too.
With characteristic rigor, clarity, and wit, Ross Douthat makes the case that being religious is, on balance, the most reasonable response to the intelligibility, mystery, joy, and sheer gratuity of existence. In these pages, he elevates our societal discourse about religion in a way that is disarming and helpful. If you are a thoughtful atheist, agnostic, or general skeptic, read this book. Its challenging insights will, at the very least, sharpen your thinking. And if you, like me, are a believer with doubts, surrounded by those who find traditional religious faith preposterous, read this book. It not only will engage your mind and strengthen your convictions but may even lead you into wonder and worship.
If you are exhausted by the arid desert island of secular disenchantment, thirsting for transcendence but doubtful of your capacity to find God, reading Ross Douthat's Believe is like discovering a bridge to hope. Though he's a convinced Christian (who explains why in his luminous final chapter), Douthat's goal here to make basic theism more reasonable than atheism, and embracing a religious life engaged with a particular enduring tradition more sensible than spiritual novelty or moralistic therapeutic deism. Douthat's calm, analytical temperament, his intellectual humility, and his charity toward opponents make him a companionable guide for honest seekers. Believe is not only Ross Douthat's best book but also one that will make a life-changing difference for untold numbers of people trapped in epistemic bondage. For them, Believe is a golden key that will open a cell door that has been locked from the inside.
In his famously readable style, Ross Douthat makes a persuasive case for traditional religious belief, one perfectly attuned to our cultural moment. Recognizing that the aggressive antireligious polemics of the New Atheists have worn thin, Douthat provides a road map for assessing 'the God question' that will appeal to those who may lament the loss of a religious foundation for culture (and their own lives), but who cannot get over the line to personal belief. By highlighting new scientific discoveries that reveal a deep, underlying order and design in the universe and aspects of common experience that we often take for granted, Douthat shows that theism explains signposts to ultimate reality that the popular default worldview of secular materialism does not. Using an accessible commonsense style of reasoning, Douthat renders plausible and compelling what many today assume is implausible and untenable: traditional religious belief. A powerful, highly readable, commonsense guide to the most pressing questions of human existence.
Ross Douthat reveals how the growing ignorance of Christianity has created a void in modern life. With sharp clarity, he shows that the absence of faith isn't neutral, it's a loss that reshapes identity and the way the world is understood. This is an invitation to rediscover what has been overlooked.
Self-recommending. Some would say God recommends it too.
With characteristic rigor, clarity, and wit, Ross Douthat makes the case that being religious is, on balance, the most reasonable response to the intelligibility, mystery, joy, and sheer gratuity of existence. In these pages, he elevates our societal discourse about religion in a way that is disarming and helpful. If you are a thoughtful atheist, agnostic, or general skeptic, read this book. Its challenging insights will, at the very least, sharpen your thinking. And if you, like me, are a believer with doubts, surrounded by those who find traditional religious faith preposterous, read this book. It not only will engage your mind and strengthen your convictions but may even lead you into wonder and worship.
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller
"Truly a Mere Christianity for the 21st century"--World magazine
From the host of the Interesting Times podcast
Do you ever wish you had more faith? Here is a blueprint for thinking your way from doubt to belief.
As a columnist for the New York Times who writes often about spiritual topics for a skeptical audience, Ross Douthat understands that many of us want to have more faith than we do. Douthat argues that in light of what we know today it should be harder to not have faith than to have it.
With empathy, clarity, and rigor, Douthat explores:
With clear and straightforward arguments, Believe shows how religious belief makes sense of the order of the cosmos and our place within it, illuminates the mystery of consciousness, and explains the persistent reality of encounters with the supernatural. Highly relevant for our current moment, Believe offers a pathway for thinking your way from doubt into belief, from uncertainty about our place in the universe into a confidence that we are here for a reason.
"Truly a Mere Christianity for the 21st century"--World magazine
From the host of the Interesting Times podcast
Do you ever wish you had more faith? Here is a blueprint for thinking your way from doubt to belief.
As a columnist for the New York Times who writes often about spiritual topics for a skeptical audience, Ross Douthat understands that many of us want to have more faith than we do. Douthat argues that in light of what we know today it should be harder to not have faith than to have it.
With empathy, clarity, and rigor, Douthat explores:
- Why nonbelief requires ignoring what our reasoning faculties tell us about the world
- How modern scientific developments make a religious worldview more credible, not less
- Why it's entirely reasonable to believe in mystical and supernatural realities
- How an open-minded religious quest should proceed amid the diversity of religious faiths
- How Douthat's own Christianity is informed by his blueprint for belief
With clear and straightforward arguments, Believe shows how religious belief makes sense of the order of the cosmos and our place within it, illuminates the mystery of consciousness, and explains the persistent reality of encounters with the supernatural. Highly relevant for our current moment, Believe offers a pathway for thinking your way from doubt into belief, from uncertainty about our place in the universe into a confidence that we are here for a reason.