Why We Believe: Finding Meaning in Uncertain Times

faith-and-doubt

• Perhaps because I was intolerant of uncertainty, I believed that the natural sciences could answer every question worth asking.

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• Ultimate questions — 'what is the point of life?' — lay beyond the scope of the natural sciences; if they could be answered, it could not be based on logic or science.

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• The Creeds are not so much a demand to believe as a description of what other Christians have found — an invitation to explore, discover and inhabit this new world.

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self-and-identity

• Lewis found he could not articulate a meaningful notion of 'justice' without grounding this transcendentally in something beyond his own personal beliefs.

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• We are story-telling animals who understand who we are by locating ourselves within the larger narratives and metanarratives that we hear and tell.

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mind-and-cognition

• Some atheist critiques of religion are based on uninterrogated external assumptions, lacking intellectual curiosity or cultural empathy to understand what religious people mean.

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