Questioning your doubts : a Harvard PhD explores challenges to faith / Christina M. H. Powell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powell, Christina M. H., 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faith.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

You are not alone with your doubts. Scientist and cancer researcher Christina Powell helps us grapple with our doubts about God, allowing us to move beyond skepticism, disillusionment or painful life circumstances. We can ultimately work through challenges to faith and find a renewed confidence in our beliefs when we dig deeper into our questions.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One: Thinking Through Doubts""; ""1 Created to Think""; ""Constructing Newton�s Bridge""; ""Finding Science Everywhere""; ""Discovering Inherent Uncertainty""; ""2 Interplay of Influences""; ""Compassion and Research""; ""Echoes of a Prayer""; ""The Significance of Background""; ""3 Discernment Requires Doubts""; ""Encountering Beneficial Doubts""; ""Experiencing Dissonance""; ""Making a Decision""; ""4 Solving Problems with Questions""; ""Learning and Connecting with Questions""

""Defeating False Assumptions with Questions""""Maintaining Focus with Questions""; ""Part Two: Sources of Doubt""; ""5 Locating Limits""; ""Pushing the Limits""; ""Overlapping Boundaries of Knowledge""; ""Embracing Human Limitations""; ""6 Unanswered Questions""; ""The Continuing Mystery""; ""The Unwanted Diagnosis""; ""7 Doubts Born from Pain""; ""Faith Tested in Suffering""; ""Fear Wrapp ed in Faith""; ""Resolution Found in Forgiveness""; ""8 Disillusionment Masquerading as Doubt""; ""Imperfections and the Ideal""; ""Danger in a Pendulum�s Swing""; ""Raindrops of Change""

""Part Three: Resolving Doubts""""9 An Authentic Journey""; ""Faith Pervading Everyday Life""; ""Faith Lived in the Moment""; ""Faith Developed over Time""; ""10 Retracing the Path""; ""The Sound of the Waves""; ""The Taste of Caviar""; ""The Smell of Fresh Ink""; ""11 Thinking in Community""; ""Joining the Company of Scholars""; ""Following Faraday""; ""Receiving a Mantle and a Clock""; ""12 An Incomplete Process""; ""Cable Cars and Connections""; ""Lines and Circles""; ""Drops and Ripples""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Single-Session Discussion Guide""; ""Notes""

""Praise for Questioning Your Doubts""""About the Author""; ""More Titles from InterVarsity Press""

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ISBN:

9780830896714

0830896716

OCLC:

896826849