Questioning our Knowledge: Can we Know What we Need to Know?

by David W. Gooding, John C. Lennox

We need a coherent picture of our world. Life’s realities won’t let us ignore its fundamental questions, but with so many opposing views, how will we choose answers that are reliable? In this series of books, David Gooding and John Lennox offer a fair analysis of religious and philosophical attempts to find the truth about the world and our place in it. By listening to the Bible alongside other leading voices, they show that it is not only answering life’s biggest questions—it is asking better questions than we ever thought to ask. In Book 2 – Finding Ultimate Reality, they remind us that the authority behind ethics cannot be separated from the truth about ultimate reality. Is there a Creator who stands behind his moral law? Are we the product of amoral forces, left to create moral consensus? Gooding and Lennox compare ultimate reality as understood in: Indian Pantheistic Monism, Greek Philosophy and Mysticism, Naturalism and Atheism, and Christian Theism.

412 pages, Paperback

Published May 8, 2018

About the author

David W. Gooding is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Greek at Queen's University, Belfast and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. His international teaching ministry is marked by fresh and careful expositions of both testaments. He has published scholarly studies on the Septuagint and Old Testament narratives, as well as expositions of Luke, John 13-17, Acts and Hebrews.

Reviews

[Snowdenwald · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ich habe großen Respekt vor den Autoren, aber dieses Buch ist leider enttäuschend. Es wirkt zu großen Teilen unfertig, eine lose Sammlung an Ideen und Zitaten. Wenn nicht-Philosophen versuchen, Philosophien zu kritisieren, kann es oft peinlich werden - leider hier teilweise auch. Positionen werden stark vereinfacht und ohne viel Argumentation als absurd abgestempelt. Für jemanden, der schnell eine Meinung zu verschiedenen Themen ohne viel eigene Gedanken übernehmen möchte, ist das vielleicht geeignet, für mich jedoch sehr unzufriedenstellend.

Kapitel 9 und 10 über Postmodernismus halte ich jedoch für eine hilfreiche Einführung in das Thema.

[Frank Peters · Rating 2 out of 5]

These are two of my favourite authors, and I normally give their books 5 stars. This book was unfortunately disappointing. The purpose of the book was to discuss epistemology, or how can we know anything? The book does an excellent job of going through the history of the topic, from Greek through Enlightenment, Modern and Postmodern. Much of the description was difficult reading as it was correctly going back to Philosophers. Included is also a Christian critique on each of the other views. However, the book never seems to suggest any answer to the question or provide a way forward. Perhaps this will come in following books. As a result, this is the first book I have ever read by these authors that I will not recommend.

[Stefan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Way too stupid to understand all of it