The Question of God . Other Voices

Be they philosophers or comedians, missionaries or neuroscientists, people from every walk of life confront the question of God at various times and in different ways. These 12 readings present an array of insights from a wider circle of perspectives on issues and themes dealt with in The Question of God.

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An Interview with Francis Collins
"God gave us an opportunity through science to understand the natural world, but there will never be a scientific proof of God's existence."

An Interview with Peter Sellars
"The artist's work is to lift people out of their usual sense of their own cosmos into a higher vision of what's going on up there."

Natural Law
"It is enough for us that the universe has produced us and has within it ... all that we believe and love."

I'm Still Learning to Forgive
"I had to do it — I knew that. The message that God forgives has a prior condition: that we forgive those who have injured us."

The Will to Believe
"Our faith is faith in some one else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."

Does God Exist?
"Ask yourself this: Do I really need to know the answer to this question?"

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
"Absolute faith is placed in a man's inner being. For whatever authority there is in Zen, all comes from within."

Wired for the Ultimate Reality
Two cognitive scientists examine the biological mechanisms underlying religious and spiritual experience.

Union Square to Rome
"There can be no brotherhood without the Fatherhood of God."

Practical Mysticism
"The pure soul is like a lens from which all irrelevancies ... have been removed."

Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation
"At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world."

Man's Search for Meaning
"If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering."