Finding Ultimate Reality: In Search of the Best Answers to the Biggest Questions

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 Indian Pantheistic Monism, Greek Philosophy and Mysticism, Naturalism and Atheism, and Christian Theism.

Genres: Philosophy

258 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

[Oddmund Horpestad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ganske bra bok, overkommeleg/lett tung å lese. Starten med introduksjon til serien er tyngre delen og avsluttar likt som heile serien med gjennomgong kva vitskap kan seie og ikkje.

Interessant vinkling å ta for seg korleis Hinduisme, gresk filosofi, materialisme og kristen tru svarar for kva som er ultimate realiteten i verda og korleis vi reagerer til den. Oppbyggeleg å lese korleis hinduismen som følgde av eigen teologi kjem i logiske problem når kommer til at t.d. både Adolf Hitler og Jødene del av samme gud som handler. Tilsvarande korleis neoplatonisme ikkje sjølv kan svare for din ultimate røynd. Kapittelt om kristendom tar og for seg på grundig og bibelsk møte for deg den kristne tru og viser korleis den gjev svar der dei andre kjem til kort.

Kan anbefalast om dette er emne er særskilt interessert i, samstundes som opplevde fyrste boka som meir dypgripande i levd realitet om kva vil seie å vera eit menneske. Hjelper og å hatt exfil/fac før les eller kan nok opplevast som tung.

[Frank Peters · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the second in this apologetic series and is another excellent book. This volume discusses what is ultimate reality, and how we relate to it. The book starts with the eastern Indian (Hindu) view, and then proceeds through multiple Greek, atheist and finally the Christina viewpoint. I discovered in this volume that 95% of the introduction was identical with the first volume (which makes sense as it was the series introduction), and 100% of the appendix was identical. This meant that the new portion of the book was considerably smaller than might be expected (only about 100 pages). For those interested in Christian apologetics, it is still well worth reading.

[Kenny Robertson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this very helpful, particularly as an introduction to the various answers in both Greek philosophy and naturalism/atheism for the nature of ultimate reality.

[Margarita ♛ Voinkova · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Людина та її світогляд. Том 1"
Розділи 8-14.