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A place for truth : leading thinkers explore life's hardest questions

Title: A place for truth : leading thinkers explore life's hardest questions / edited by Dallas Willard ; assistant editors, Daniel Cho and Sarah Park.
Publication: Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, c2010.

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321 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Since its founding at Harvard in 1992, The Veritas Forum has provided a place for the university world to explore the deepest questions of truth and life. Now gathered in one volume are some of The Veritas Forum's most notable presentations. Volume editor Dallas Willard introduces each presentation, highlighting its significance and putting it in context for us today. Also included are selected question and answer sessions with the speakers from the original forum experiences. --from publisher description

Subject

Theology

Note

"Highlights from the Veritas Forum."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [318]).

Contents

Truth. Is there life after truth? / Richard John Neuhaus ; Time for truth / Os Guinness ; Reason for God : the exclusivity of truth / Timothy J. Keller -- Faith and science. The language of God : a scientist presents evidence for belief / Francis S. Collins ; The new atheists and the meaning of life / Alister McGrath and David J. Helfand ; A scientist who looked and was found / Hugh Ross -- Atheism. The psychology of atheism / Paul C. Vitz ; Nietzsche versus Jesus Christ / Dallas Willard -- Meaning and humanity. Moral mammals : does atheism or theism provide the best foundation for human worth and morality? / Peter Singer and John Hare ; Living machines : can robots become human? / Rodney Brooks and Rosalind Picard ; The sense of an ending / Jeremy S. Begbie -- Christian worldview. Simply Christian / N.T. Wright -- Social justice. Why human rights are impossible without religion / John Warwick Montgomery ; Radical Marxist, radical womanist, radical love : what Mother Teresa taught me about social justice / Mary Poplin ; The whole gospel for the whole person / Ronald J. Sider.

Call Number

JFE 11-2396

ISBN

9780830838455 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0830838457 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010014322

OCLC

567007998

Title

A place for truth : leading thinkers explore life's hardest questions / edited by Dallas Willard ; assistant editors, Daniel Cho and Sarah Park.

Imprint

Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, c2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [318]).

Added Author

Willard, Dallas, 1935-2013. Editor

Cho, Daniel S. (Daniel Sung), 1974- Editor

Park, Sarah. Editor

Veritas Forum.

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JFE 11-2396

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