Victor Hunter, Lanny Hunter

Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Stories are the foundation for identity and the ground of understanding. Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith addresses humankind's search for identity and meaning through the stories of science and religion. Both arose in the mists of history. Both are awe inspiring. Both beggar the imagination. Both have always competed for authority. Science gained preeminence in our postmodern, pluralistic, globalized world as evidenced based, while religion (for many reasons) lost credibility. Yet religion has not disappeared. Stories is a concise, engaging, inspiring accessible account of the history of science (geological and biological evolution perceived through increasingly sophisticated technology) and the history of nine text-based world religions of antiquity. Stories avoids insider language, democratizing both God talk and scientific jargon without patronizing either. There is no attempt to identify the best or truest religion, and Stories disavows dogmatic religious triumphalism. The authors do follow the tradition of giving an account of their Christian faith, the only religious story with which they have experience. They invite others to do the same, paying attention to their own stories as they grapple with modern science, do theology, and engage faith. Stories proposes how and in what manner these disciplines can meaningfully converse in today's world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cascade Books
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781532662270
• ISBN-10: 1532662270
• Artikelnr.: 56228603

Autorenporträt

Victor Hunter is a pastoral theologian who has spent more than fifty years in the pastor's study and parish pulpit. He has worked with civic and church leaders, academics and seminarians, in addition to serving in a variety of denominational judicatory settings. Lanny Hunter is a physician with more than fifty years' experience in the consultation room and operating theater. He is a Vietnam veteran and recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross for valor. As brothers, they have engaged in a lifelong conversation within their disciplines of theology and science. They have written, published, and lectured individually and jointly for thirty-five years.