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Book Synopsis The Diary of a Reluctant Atheist by : David R. Bock
Download or read book The Diary of a Reluctant Atheist written by David R. Bock and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author David R. Bock became an atheist in high school and studied philosophy as an undergraduate, including two years at the University of Vienna. A mystical encounter in a monastery in Germany and conversations with Catholic priests and laypeople caused him to rethink his views of God and religion. When David shifted to economics at Oxford and started his career, he continued to encounter people who talked to him about spirituality, Jesus of Nazareth, and the supernatural nature of the Christian walk. His journey from atheism to faith culminated during a dinner with friends when he was overwhelmed by the love of God and dramatically set free from the intellectual shackles of his atheism. Written in the form of a diary, The Journal of a Reluctant Atheist tells the story of David's conversion from atheism to Christian faith. This intellectual transformation spans a decade in his life from college to graduate school, marriage, and beginning a career in international finance and development. A Rhodes Scholar, David describes how God reveals himself through nature, other people, and personal experience, all the while leaving us free to choose between atheism and faith.
Book Synopsis The Diary of a Reluctant Atheist by : David Bock
Download or read book The Diary of a Reluctant Atheist written by David Bock and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoire of an American Rhodes Scholar, The Diary of a Reluctant Atheist tells the story of a young man's journey from atheism to faith through a series of encounters that force him to reconsider his view of the world, religion and the nature of human knowledge. This intellectual journey spans nearly a decade and culminates in an unexpected and dramatic conversion that could have come from the pages of the New Testament. David Bock was a philosophy major at the University of Utah and a committed atheist determined to find a replacement for religion as the intellectual and moral foundation of modern society. On his way to study at the University of Vienna, he is overtaken by a mysterious sense of longing during a Vespers service in Germany that provokes both desire and disdain for spiritual experience. He continues to have unlikely encounters with religious people over the next two years, goes through a 'dark night of the soul', deeply considers what is involved in a Christian calling and ends up as a 'reluctant' atheist with a new appreciation of religion but limited interest in it for himself. David's adventure begins a new phase with his selection as a Rhodes Scholar, engagement to Pam and a new focus on the field of economics. Despite his reservations about religious experience, he continues to encounter people who challenge his thinking and prejudices. A narrow escape from serious illness in Africa and a life-threatening accident involving his infant daughter deepen his sense of vulnerability and of life's mysteries. A late night conversation with a fellow McKinsey associate in Washington DC triggers a new way of thinking about issues of faith and reason and sets the stage for a climactic ending to David's search for the meaning and purpose of life.
Book Synopsis THE DIARY OF A RELUCTANT ATHEIST by : David R Bock
Download or read book THE DIARY OF A RELUCTANT ATHEIST written by David R Bock and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author David R. Bock became an atheist in high school and studied philosophy as an undergraduate, including two years at the University of Vienna. A mystical encounter in a monastery in Germany and conversations with Catholic priests and laypeople caused him to rethink his views of God and religion. When David shifted to economics at Oxford and started his career, he continued to encounter people who talked to him about spirituality, Jesus of Nazareth, and the supernatural nature of the Christian walk. His journey from atheism to faith culminated during a dinner with friends when he was overwhelmed by the love of God and dramatically set free from the intellectual shackles of his atheism. Written in the form of a diary, The Journal of a Reluctant Atheist tells the story of David’s conversion from atheism to Christian faith. This intellectual transformation spans a decade in his life from college to graduate school, marriage, and beginning a career in international finance and development. A Rhodes Scholar, David describes how God reveals himself through nature, other people, and personal experience, all the while leaving us free to choose between atheism and faith.
Book Synopsis S Lewis vs the New Atheists by : Peter S Williams
Download or read book S Lewis vs the New Atheists written by Peter S Williams and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book will counter the 'new atheist' movement using the arguments of C.S. Lewis, thereby appealing to readers interested in both loci and showing that there is nothing especially 'new' about the new atheism. How might C.S. Lewis, the greatest Christian apologist of the twentieth century, respond to the twenty-first century 'new atheism' of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and company? Might Lewis' own journey from atheism to Christian belief illuminate and undercut the objections of the new atheists? Christian philosopher Peter S. Williams takes us on an intellectual journey through Lewis' conversion in conversation with today's anti-theists. 'This book shows the breadth, depth, and durability of Lewis's Christian apologetics.' Michael Ward, chaplain at St Peter's College, Oxford
Book Synopsis Memoir of a Reluctant Atheist by : Judith Heaney Rousseau
Download or read book Memoir of a Reluctant Atheist written by Judith Heaney Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl Judy raised as a Catholic in a small New England town during the forties and fifties adheres to the rituals but questions the concept of life ever after. As an adult, she questions other possibilities for her existence by studying Darwinian evolution. In a final attempt to resolve her conflict she visits the Holy Land on a guided tour with a renowned Catholic theologian.
Download or read book A Life Observed written by Devin Brown and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. S. Lewis is one of the most influential Christian writers of our time. The Chronicles of Narnia has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and all Lewis's works are estimated to sell 6 million copies annually. At the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Lewis expert Devin Brown brings the beloved author's story to life in a fresh, accessible, and moving biography through focusing on Lewis's spiritual journey. Although it was clear from the start that Lewis would be a writer, it was not always clear he would become a Christian. Drawing on Lewis's autobiographical works, books by those who knew him personally, and his apologetic and fictional writing, this book tells the inspiring story of Lewis's journey from cynical atheist to joyous Christian and challenges readers to follow their own calling. The book allows Lewis to tell his own life story in a uniquely powerful manner while shedding light on his best-known works.
Book Synopsis Thank God I'm an Atheist by : Gevover Publishing
Download or read book Thank God I'm an Atheist written by Gevover Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thank God I'm An Atheist - 120-pages 6x9 inches Blank Notebook - Journal - Diary Book This is a 120 pages book that features: 120 Notebook - Journal Blank Blank-Lined Sheets 6" x 9" pages White Color Pages Color Graphic Front and Back Cover Matte-Finish Cover for a better look and feel
Book Synopsis Something other than God by : Jennifer Fulwiler
Download or read book Something other than God written by Jennifer Fulwiler and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Fulwiler told herself she was happy. Why wouldn't she be? She made good money as a programmer at a hot tech start-up, had just married a guy with a stack of Ivy League degrees, and lived in a twenty-first-floor condo where she could sip sauvignon blanc while watching the sun set behind the hills of Austin. Raised in a happy, atheist home, Jennifer had the freedom to think for herself and play by her own rules. Yet a creeping darkness followed her all of her life. Finally, one winter night, it drove her to the edge of her balcony, making her ask once and for all why anything mattered. At that moment everything she knew and believed was shattered. Asking the unflinching questions about life and death, good and evil, led Jennifer to Christianity, the religion she had reviled since she was an awkward, sceptical child growing up in the Bible Belt. Mortified by this turn of events, she hid her quest from everyone except her husband, concealing religious books in opaque bags as if they were porn and locking herself in public bathroom stalls to read the Bible. Just when Jennifer had a profound epiphany that gave her the courage to convert, she was diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition-and the only treatment was directly at odds with the doctrines of her new-found faith. Something other than God is a poignant, profound and often funny tale of one woman who set out to find the meaning of life and discovered that true happiness sometimes requires losing it all.
Download or read book The Atheist written by Bryan F. Le Beau and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length biography of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, America's most determined, most notable, and perhaps most denounced Atheist.
Book Synopsis The Most Reluctant Convert by : David C. Downing
Download or read book The Most Reluctant Convert written by David C. Downing and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his teens, a young man wrote, “I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them.” After serving in the trenches of WW1, the same young man said, “I never sank so low as to pray.” To a religious friend, he wrote impatiently, “You can’t start with God. I don’t accept God!” This young man was C. S. Lewis, the “foul-mouthed atheist” who would become one of the most eloquent Christian writers of the twentieth century. David C. Downing offers a unique look at Lewis’s personal journey to faith and the profound influence it had on his life as a writer and eventual follower of Christ. This is the first book to focus on the period from Lewis’s childhood to his early thirties, a tumultuous journey of spiritual and intellectual exploration. It was not despite this journey but precisely because of it that Lewis understood the search for life’s meaning so well.
Book Synopsis Diary of an Old World Pagan Atheist by : Rozmarija Grauds
Download or read book Diary of an Old World Pagan Atheist written by Rozmarija Grauds and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atheism, or "Free Thinking," ideally is a dedication to living with reason and logic in so far as that can be practiced within the framework of any society, which are structures built on the shifting sands of socio-biological factors, because our civilization is as prone to being derailed from any working philosophy by the interjection of a smothering dogma as a landscape is prone to being re-arranged by earthquake or major flood. When Leo Tolstoy said "All happy families are happy in the same way; all unhappy families are unique in their unhappiness," he could have been talking about all atheists expressing pretty much an identical perception of successful coexisting, while everyone in thrall to a deity has a unique personal view of that deity, of necessity, as they are all imaginary and it is the followers who flesh them out. And clash with those whose deities are differently perceived! There of course is no typical atheist, which is why we can't manage to get together to try establishing a power base for ourselves in this country, America. What fascinates me is that every personal expression of non-belief I've ever come across, could have been written by me, only our phrasings differ slightly according to personality and level of education (mine is nil). Each of us just knows that a system of ethics and morals work like mathematical factors in getting along in a system of civilization. What theists throw at us as a matter of course is insistence that all of us have received our awareness of morality by having had parental "training," or religious instruction, before we somehow "went off course." While it's true that many children are taken to church and some to Sunday School, andsome people do remain in a comfortable mental cocoon well into adulthood if nothing occurs to make them question their beliefs. So, okay, here I come. This long preamble to my own little homo-sapiens primate life was necessary to introduce the natural order of things as interpersonal civilized relationships were unveiled to the growing awareness of a child, a child within a very loosely woven family framework, almost outside looking in, for all my physical needs were met by decent, responsible human beings, some of whom went to great lengths to protect my physical being, but who had no real awareness of me as a separate, sentient individual. Which worked out very well, in retrospect! I was born in a lovely building in central Riga, Latvia in 1938. I had two much older brothers, older by twelve and fourteen years, and have no memory of either of them until quite a few years later, so I began life as an only child. Later I found out how differently my very life had come into existence, which may explain some attitudes. But that was much later, when I was around twenty-two years old. Quite a journey to reach that point. But that was much later, when I was around twenty-two years old. Quite a journey to reach that point. As a toddler, I was cared for by my grandmother, Zenija, Latvian for Evzeni, or as in English, Eugenia. I knew her as Omama, and she seemed to me always serene, unflappable. So that was, I'm certain, my first adult human role model, someone who took things as they came, did not raise her voice, raised no fuss. Thus my journey really began in 1877, when my grandmother was born into a Latvian - Estonian family in Valk, a town bordering those two countries. As neighbors ofdifferent tribal origins, there were ongoing border skirmishes. Latvia consists of Baltic tribes arriving in the region around 1850 BCE, Estonia is Finno-Ugric, related to Finland and in history to Hungary, the Finns inhabiting the region since around 5000 BCE. ( The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History, Colin McEvedy) I'm told that hers was a prominent family, and as such her parents were killed in one of those ongoing border raids, when she was quite young. A pair of aunts dutifully took in the orphaned child
Download or read book Waiting for God written by Lawrence Bush and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are so many baby boomers tuned into a quest for spirituality? How did growing up with the Bomb influence a generation's view of science and spirit? What effects did psychedelic drugs have on American spirituality? What is the difference between open-mindedness and gullibility? Is God a necessary part of a religious life? Is atheism merely a negation of religious belief, or is it something more? Waiting for God challenges us to become the God we seek: Like Prometheus, Bush steals the Heavenly Fire, and treasures a vision of planting it in his own heart and the hearts of his fellow men. Waiting for God offers a probing look at the generational factors - growing up with the Bomb, psychedelic drugs, environmental crisis, and more - that led the Woodstock generation down the path of spirituality. Waiting for God grasps, from an atheist's perspective, the sense of human interconnection that defines contemporary spirituality and poses challenges for skeptics and humanists to provide spiritual leadership in a hungry age.
Book Synopsis I'm an Atheist Kinda Like a Normal Person Just a Lot Cooler by : M. F
Download or read book I'm an Atheist Kinda Like a Normal Person Just a Lot Cooler written by M. F and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gift this beautiful sleek Funny Atheist Journal Note Book to the Atheist in your life. This book is the perfect gift, present or party prize for a Atheist friend, colleague, family member or loved one. Enjoy the book!
Book Synopsis How a Modern Atheist Found God by : G. A. Ferguson
Download or read book How a Modern Atheist Found God written by G. A. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Book Synopsis Religious and Sexual Identities by : Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
Download or read book Religious and Sexual Identities written by Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting qualitative and quantitative findings on the lived experiences of around seven hundred young adults from Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and mixed-faith backgrounds, Religious and Sexual Identities provides an illuminating and nuanced analysis of young adults’ perceptions and negotiations of their religious, sexual, youth and gender identities. It demonstrates how these young adults creatively construct meanings and social connections as they navigate demanding but exciting spaces in which their multiple identities intersect. Accessible quantitative analyses are combined with rich interview and video diary narratives in this theoretically-informed exploration of religious and sexual identities in contemporary society. A timely investigation revealing the multiplicity of contemporary identities, this book will appeal not only to sociologists and scholars of religion, but also to those working in the fields of youth studies, sexuality, gender and identity.
Book Synopsis Question Everything by : Atheist Publishing
Download or read book Question Everything written by Atheist Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journal is a perfect gift for friends and family, male or female. Other features of this notebook are: - 120 pages - 6x9 inches - matte cover This book is convenient for writing. It has the perfect size to carry anywhere for journaling and note taking.
Book Synopsis The Everyday Atheist by : Ronald Murphy
Download or read book The Everyday Atheist written by Ronald Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Everyday Atheist," by Ronald F. Murphy, is an honest look at a growing skepticism within the previously unquestioned religious community. This book represents Mr. Murphy's first work in a series that will attempt to discuss the stark realities of taboo subjects from the unbiased perspective of the everyday reader. In his initial book he provides a clear account of why he adopted, questioned, and ultimately rejected religious faith. No matter what your faith, his plainly spoken and readable narrative addresses the unspoken thoughts that linger in us all, as we seek to answer the age old question "Is there a God?"
