Socrates in the city: conversations on ''life, God, and other small topics''

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Socrates in the city / Eric Metaxax -- Belief in God in an age of science / Sir John Polkinghourne, FRS, KBE -- Making sense out of suffering / Peter Kreeft -- The importance of fatherhood / Paul Vitz -- Can an atheist be a good citizen? / Fr. Richard John Neuhaus -- Who are we? C.S. Lewis and the question of man / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- The good life: seeking purpose, meaning, and truth in your life / Charles W. Colson -- Simply Christian: why Christianity makes sense / N.T. Wright -- The twilight of atheism: the rise and fall of disbelief in the modern world / Allister McGrath -- The case for civility--and why our future depends on it / Os Guinness -- The language of God: a believer looks at the human genome / Francis S. Collins, MD, PHD -- How good confronts evil: lessons from the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.;A book of essays based on the popular lecture series in New York City offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts about the great questions surrounding life, and includes contributions by Dr. Francis Collins, N.T. Wright, Os Guinness, and George Weigel.