Everything New by Jeff Cook
Everything New - One Philosopher's Search for a God Worth Believing In [Kindle Edition]
Book Description
Publication Date: June 15, 2012FROM THE PREFACE
A lot of good people, people I think heroic and virtuous, do not believe in my God. They are my friends, my students, my colleagues. One of the latter said he thought you had to be crazy, literally nuts, to believe in a God--which doesn't make my chances at tenure look very promising.
He may be right. I teach philosophy at a state university exploring the works of writers like Russell, Hume and Nietzsche. Such thinkers continue to give me all kinds of reasons to bail God-belief (in fact by now I can argue against God's existence better than anyone else I know), but I don't find such arguments satisfying.
Strong? Sure.
Emotionally compelling? Absolutely.
I gave up God-belief during my graduate studies when I realized the religious views I had defended since high school were insufficient. But recently that changed.
When I get serious about what is real and what the best possible life looks like, I choose to believe-- even after a church I worked for fell apart, even after my son was born with autism, despite the arguments and the long season in which I felt confident a God was not there. I now choose to believe not only in a God, but in a very specific God.
This is what that path has looked like.
Editorial Reviews
"Prepare to see God in new ways."
- SHANE HIPPS. Teaching Pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church, www.shanehipps.com
"Jeff Cook offers an honest voice in the midst of too many saying the same thing with subtle, monotonous, meaningless differences ... There's more in this little book than its length indicates. Digest this book."
- SCOT McKNIGHT. Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University.
"A creatively written and historically grounded portrait ... Everything New presents Jesus in beautiful and compelling ways."
- PRESTON SPRINKLE.
New York Times Best Selling Author, www.prestonsprinkle.com
About the Author
Jeff Cook teaches philosophy at the University of Northern Colorado. He pastors Atlas Church in Greeley, Colorado. He creates music-driven preaching events with Tim Coons. He posts incendiary thoughts at www.relevantmagazine.com. And he is overseeing a set of animation projects with the incomparable Shane White. You can see his work at: www.everythingnew.org
Product Details
Paperback: 218 pages
Publisher: Blue Door Publishing (June 15, 2012)
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