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A landmark book answering the greatest philosophical questions of our time, from Yale's leading theologians.
We are facing a crisis of meaning. Swept up in the obstacles of the day-to-day, the deeper questions of our fundamental purpose linger just beneath the surface of our personal lives and our collective culture. What we need is to seek the truth.
In A Life Worth Living, Yale's leading theologians Volf, Croasmun and McAnnally-Linz offer a deep dive beneath the levels of habit, strategy and introspection to the bedrock question of what kind of life is truly worth living. Inspired by the leading Yale course of the same, this perspective-shifting book will guide you through life's biggest questions. Drawing on the world's greatest religious and philosophical traditions, this is your path to understanding the true meaning of life.
What kind of life would be truly worth wanting? What kind of world
would be truly worth seeking? How should we live? We are facing a
crisis of meaning. Swept up in the obstacles of the day-to-day, the
deeper questions of our fundamental purpose linger just beneath the
surface of our personal lives and our collective culture. What we
need is to seek the truth. In A Life Worth Living, Yale's leading
theologians Volf, Croasmun and McAnnally-Linz offer a deep dive
beneath the levels of habit, strategy and introspection to the
bedrock question of what kind of life is truly worth living.
Inspired by the leading Yale course of the same, this
perspective-shifting book will guide you through life's biggest
questions. Drawing on the world's greatest religious and
philosophical traditions, this is your path to understanding the
true meaning of life.
Christianity Today 2020 Book Award (Award of Merit,
Theology/Ethics) Outreach 2020 Recommended Resource of the Year
(Theology and Biblical Studies) The question of what makes life
worth living is more vital now than ever. In today's pluralistic,
postsecular world, universal values are dismissed as mere matters
of private opinion, and the question of what constitutes
flourishing life--for ourselves, our neighbors, and the planet as a
whole--is neglected in our universities, our churches, and our
culture at large. Although we increasingly have technology to do
almost anything, we have little sense of what is truly worth
accomplishing. In this provocative new contribution to public
theology, world-renowned theologian Miroslav Volf (named "America's
New Public Intellectual" by Scot McKnight on his Jesus Creed blog)
and Matthew Croasmun explain that the intellectual tools needed to
rescue us from our present malaise and meet our new cultural
challenge are the tools of theology. A renewal of theology is
crucial to help us articulate compelling visions of the good life,
find our way through the maze of contested questions of value, and
answer the fundamental question of what makes life worth living.
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Human Flourishing (Hardcover)
Greg Forster, Anthony R. Cross; Foreword by Matthew Croasmun
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Human Flourishing (Paperback)
Greg Forster, Anthony R. Cross; Foreword by Matthew Croasmun
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We have more options and choices to make about how we want to live
than ever before. But where do we turn for guidance as we choose
how to live? Are we so focused on choosing what we want for our
lives that we have forgotten to ask ourselves what is a good life
and what is worth wanting? In What is the Good Life?: Perspectives
from Religion, Philosophy, and Psychology, leading
scholar-practitioners from nine different traditions--religious and
secular--each offer an account of the good life. These accounts
explore the distinct visions construed by their respective
traditions from within a shared threefold heuristic schema of
agency, circumstance, and affect. Presented in this way, the
existential concern and normative force of these traditions are
brought to the fore, inviting readers to explore the commonality of
this central question across a variety of traditions alongside
their unique and distinct responses. What is the Good Life? offers
readers a conceptual guide for navigating our pluralistic world and
specific examples of the visions of the good life they might
encounter. Although these traditions provide decidedly different
accounts of the good life, they are united in their capacity to
make claims about the world and our place in it--normative claims,
with ineradicable existential force--with which we might grapple,
provided we are given the opportunity. And it is the invitation to
take up such first-person grappling that this book provides.
What do the fields, rivers, and streams that provide food have to
do with the God who created them? How do we become at home in this
world where so many hunger for food, for companionship, or for the
presence of God? "Scripture is also a feast." As an invitation to
feast at the table of God's word, The Hunger for Home explores the
deepest human longings for home through the simple ingredients of
bread, water, wine, and stories. Matthew Croasmun and Miroslav Volf
read the meals of the Gospel of Luke as stories of God eating with
God's people. By making a common home with us in this way, God
turns all our meals into invitations to eat in God's home-a home
with a seat open for all who are willing. No longer is bread simply
fuel for getting through the day, but also a call to be present to
the agricultural workers, grocers, chefs, friends, and strangers
with whom food connects us: everyone God is calling to the banquet.
As Croasmun and Volf show, Luke gives us an image of creation at
home by bringing God into the home, as it was always meant to be.
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