Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 176
Trim: 5¼ x 8¼
978-0-7425-1450-8 • Hardback • November 2002 • $21.95 • (£16.99)
James Langford is Director Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame Press, a member of the Core Course faculty at Notre Dame and President of There Are Children Here, a camp for inner city children. Among his eight books are Galileo, Science and the Church and Happy Are They: Living the Beatitudes in America. Leroy S. Rouner is professor of philosophy, religion and philosophical theology and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University. He is author of Within Human Experience: The Philosophy of William Ernest Hocking, The Long Way Home (a memoir), and To Be at Home: Christianity, Civil Religion, and Human Community.
Part 1 Part One: PATHS AND PASSAGES
Chapter 2 Walking in the World with a Fragile God
Chapter 3 God and the World's Disorders
Chapter 4 Unless You Become Like Children
Chapter 5 And Faith Will Light the Way
Chapter 6 On the Streets of a Fragile World
Part 7 Part Two: BELIEVING IS SEEING
Chapter 8 Watching for God
Chapter 9 Terror and the Christian Faith
Chapter 10 The Solitude of God
Chapter 11 Where in the (Postmodern) World Is God?
Part 12 Part Three: PAST THE GATES OF HELL
Chapter 13 Seeing Things as They Really Are
Chapter 14 September 11, 2001: A Pacifist Response
Chapter 15 Saving Flesh
Chapter 16 Walking with God without Running Scared
There is a value in which these experienced writers have assayed their views and walue in the multiplicity of religious perspectives.
— Library Journal
Clearly written, with impressive erudition, balance, and wit, this book will be agreeable reading for warrior or anyone interested in their welfare.
— Publishers Weekly
This provocative and diverse collection of very readable essays includes some of the thoughts of important theologians, philosophers, and spiritual writers on the events of September 11th and the awareness that we live in a fragile world. Highly recommended.
— Choice Reviews
Almost every reader will find something to carry away from this book and ponder. This is not a book of answers, but a testimony to the way in which persons with different agendas cope with the fragile world in which they live. Highly recommended.
— J. H. Ware, Austin College; Choice Reviews
If ever a book were needed to add light in a season of heat, and courage in an age of fear, this is it. The unintended consequence of tragedy is often deep pastoral insight. This book is one of those pastoral consequences that will see us through and to the other side.
— Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Harvard University
A wise, healing book that draws consoling and challenging words out of the stunned silence of their time.
— James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History