What Is God? Musings on Human Anxiety and Aspirations

Download or read book What Is God? Musings on Human Anxiety and Aspirations written by Gregory Loewen and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written in forty consecutive days of fortunate inspiration, 'What is God?' asks some of the most basic and sobering existential questions of our times. These are the questions to which each of us, as human beings, attempts to attach some meaning during our brief lifetimes: Why believe, and why this or that belief? How are our notions of God used and abused by the religious and scientific mind alike? What motivates the recently popular critiques of religion, and how accurate are they? How can we come to know ourselves as beings who live within a history which is greater than each of us, but still shapes us intimately?