The title of Charles Taliaferro's book is derived from poems
and stories in which a person in peril or on a quest must follow a
cord or string in order to find the way to happiness, safety, or
home. In one of the most famous of such tales, the ancient Greek
hero Theseus follows the string given him by Ariadne to mark his
way in and out of the Minotaur's labyrinth. William Blake's poem
"Jerusalem" uses the metaphor of a golden string, which, if
followed, will lead one to heaven itself. Taliaferro extends
Blake's metaphor to illustrate the ways we can link what we see,
feel, and do with deep spiritual realities. Taliaferro offers a
foundational case for the recognition of the experience of the
eternal God of Christianity, in which God is understood as the
fount of all goodness and the subject and object of our best love,
revealed through scripture, tradition, philosophical reflection,
and encountered in everyday events. He addresses philosophical
obstacles to the recognition of such experiences, especially
objections from the "new atheists," and explores the values
involved in thinking and experiencing God as eternal. These include
the belief that the eternal goodness of God subordinates temporal
goods, such as the pursuit of fame and earthly glory; that God is
the essence of life; and that the eternal God hallows domestic
goods, blessing the everyday goods of ordinary life. An exploration
of the moral and spiritual riches of the Christian tradition as an
alternative to materialism and naturalism, "The Golden Cord" brings
an originality and depth to the debate in accessible and engaging
prose. "Charles Taliaferro has written a thought-provoking,
original work that succeeds in throwing some of the central tenets
of naturalism into question. He has gathered cutting-edge
scholarship from the context of debates about naturalism and
discusses that within the framework of a theological account of the
human condition. The result is a robust theological response to
secular naturalism, one that deserves to be taken seriously by the
latter's proponents." --Victoria Harrison, University of
Glasgow
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