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by Robert Klitgaard
Challenging young minds on knowledge, purpose, faith
New Book Release
About the Book
If you’re like many young intellectuals, Christianity may seem quaint at best, or even a sign of an anti-intellectual worldview. The doors of your mind and heart may shut prematurely. If so, this anthology may blow those doors open wide. Some of the world’s most intriguing authors appear here, often in essays without wide circulation. They tackle big, often unspoken questions that resonate deeply. What if you could figure o everything—then what? Where do both science and the humanities stop short? What is a truly fulfilled life? Several chapters describe Jesus’s profound impact on history and philosophy. Many signs point to something more. What might it mean to say that it is Jesus? This collection isn’t about converting minds but energizing them—a set of “intellectual calisthenics” designed to invigorate and strengthen your academic and personal development.
🌟 Key Features
- Thought-Provoking Insights: Engage with profound reflections on Christianity that resonate with contemporary intellectual challenges.
- Challenging Ideas: For the reader who does not want to be talked down to and is ready to engage with complex and deep ideas.
- Interdisciplinary Approach: Connects Christian teachings with insights from philosophy, science, and social studies.
🖋️ About the Author
Robert Klitgaard is a world-renowned advisor who has helped governments and international organizations navigate through transformative decisions. With a rich background in addressing global upheavals, Klitgaard brings a unique and informed perspective to the discussion of faith and intellect.
🗣️ What People Are Saying
" Robert Klitgaard makes a tantalizing promise: to blow open mental doors shut tight by muck, offering fresh ideas about how to live life well and fully. Starting with Annie Dillard’s wonderful reflection on the rich diversity behind assumed values, Klitgaard guides us through an array of intellectual, moral, and spiritual challenges, some engaging and some tough, that are bound to set minds and hearts in motion." - Katherine Marshall, Georgetown University; Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue; and author of Global Institutions of Religion: Ancient Movers, Modern Shakers
" In this readable and rewarding collection, Robert Klitgaard gathers diverse thinkers—historians, philosophers, artists, scientists—to answer the most demanding questions of human experience through serious engagement with the Christian religion. The essays collected here are not apologetics in any flat or formal sense. Rather, they are serious and critical reflections that recognize Christianity as a complex, living, inspiring, and sometimes troubling tradition, and which persuasively invite—Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Harvard Divinity School; Minister of Harvard Memorial Church; and author of Forgiveness: An Alternative Account
"The great Wordsworth wrote of Imagination as Reason “in her most exalted mood.” Robert Klitgaard’s judicious and sagacious collection and commentary of texts fires the imagination and challenges the intellect. There is much to reflect upon in these pages: perfect for an inquiring spirit of any age!"— Douglas Hedley, Professor of the Philosophy of Religion, University of Cambridge, and author of Living Forms of the Imagination
" Christianity for Young Intellectuals took me aback. Much of what passes for apologetic material these days is clear and straight-forward but bland and two-dimensional. The essays in this book, however, expand the apologetic to include voices critical of the faith and others that suggest a literary, artistic approach to faith. The final essay, written by Paul Kingsnorth, is worth the price of admission. I challenge the reader to hold off reading it until the end of the book.
—Rick Mattson, Evangelist/Apologist, InterVarsity, and author of Faith Is Like Skydiving
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