Meaning and Mystery: What It Means To Believe in God

ISBN: 978-1-4051-9344-3

Paperback

256 pages

January 2010, Wiley-Blackwell

Other Available Formats: Hardcover

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Challenges the standard approach of reflecting upon the question of God as a theoretical problem
Makes abundant use of illustrative material, including examples drawn from advertisements, television shows such as Joan of Arcadia, from films such as Stranger Than Fiction, as well as from literature such as Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Flatland, and Leo Tolstoy’s A Confession
Uses imaginative scenarios to offer explanations of central concepts
Incorporates theories of human thought and behavior in its exploration of the formation of religious belief
Written in a style that is accessible to readers with little background knowledge of philosophy