Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Do you ever wish you had more faith, but struggle to make religious belief fit with modern assumptions about the world and human life? With a rare combination of empathy, open-mindedness, and persuasive argument, Ross Douthat offers a blueprint for thinking one’s way from doubt to belief.
As a columnist for the New York Times who writes often about spiritual topics for a skeptical audience, Ross Douthat understands that many of us—whether we are agnostic, somewhat religious, or longtime believers—want to have more faith than we do. But we think we can’t believe the way our ancestors did, knowing what we know now—can we?
With clear and straightforward arguments, Believe shows how religious belief makes sense of the order of the cosmos and our place within it, illuminates the mystery of consciousness, and explains the persistent reality of encounters with the supernatural.
Douthat argues that in light of what we know today it should be harder to not have faith than to have it. With empathy, clarity, and rigor, Douthat explores:
Highly relevant for our current moment, Believe offers a pathway for thinking your way from doubt into belief, from uncertainty about our place in the universe into a confidence that we are here for a reason.
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- Offers a pathway for thinking your way from doubt into belief
- Shows how religious belief makes sense of the order of the cosmos and our place within it
- Title: Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious
- Author: Ross Douthat
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9780310370437, 0310370434
- Resource ID: LLS:BLVWVRNSBRLG
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-12T22:02:04Z