Bill Tammeus

The Value of Doubt (eBook, ePUB)

Why Unanswered Questions, Not Unquestioned Answers, Build Faith

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An invitation not to a faith certain of everything but, rather, to a faith that welcomes the discomforting questions.

Religious zealotry plagues the world. It drives susceptible people to believe they have all the truth, all the wisdom, all the divine favor. And in some cases it even moves them to murder people who, they have concluded, are enemies of God. In The Value of Doubt, veteran journalist Bill Tammeus draws deeply on his own Protestant experience of doubt and faith and, in a series of reflections, contends that the road to a rich, dynamic, healthy faith inevitably must run through the valley of the shadow of doubt. The opposite of faith, he says, is not doubt; rather, the opposite of faith is false certitude. Tammeus argues in favor of recognizing our mortality, of adopting the Benedictine virtue of humility and of realizing that we live by metaphor, by allegory, by myth. It's the willingness to question, to reconsider, to be comfortable with ambiguity and paradox that will save faith from the hands of those who seem to know all the answers before they ever hear the questions. This lively and challenging look at the religious life is for anyone seeking to build and enrich an authentic faith and courageous enough to see doubt as an essential part of it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781683366652
• Artikelnr.: 50004134

Autorenporträt

Bill Tammeus is an award-winning former columnist for The Kansas City Star. He was a member of the Star staff that won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. He writes the "Faith Matters" blog (https://billtammeus.typepad.com) and writes columns for The Presbyterian Outlook and for Flatland, KCPT-TV's digital magazine, in addition to book reviews for The National Catholic Reporter. A native of Woodstock, Illinois, he's an honors graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. His many awards include several from the American Academy of Religion and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, of which he's a past president. He received the David Steele Distinguished Writer Award from the Presbyterian Writers Guild in 2003 and the Wilbur Award for column writing from the Religion Communicators Council in 2005. His work also has appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsday and the Milwaukee Journal as well as Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Reader's Digest, Missouri Life, the New Letters Review of Books, New Letters magazine and Theology Today. His column also has been syndicated by The New York Times News Service and by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. This is his seventh book. With his wife Marcia, he lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where both serve as elders at Second Presbyterian Church. Between them they have six children and eight grandchildren.