Finding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Thinking Christians
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Overview
The Boston Globe bestseller!
Ari Goldman's best-selling book, The Search for God at Harvard, chronicled his search for signs of genuine religious faith at Harvard Divinity School. He concluded that God was not very evident at the prestigious Ivy League campus.
In Finding God at Harvard, Kelly Monroe Kullberg reveals a different picture of Christian faith in a secular intellectual setting. She presents the compelling testimonies of forty-two faculty members, former students, and distinguished orators at Harvard. Their candid reflections explode the myth that Christian faith cannot survive a rigorous intellectual atmosphere.
Finding God at Harvard speaks to the emptiness that haunts college campuses across the country—an emptiness that only Truth can fill. As Monroe's contributors so vividly show, that Truth is available to everyone.
With contributions from Robert Coles, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Armand Nicholi, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lamin Sanneh, Elizabeth Dole, Owen Gingerich and Mother Teresa.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780830834334 |
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| Publisher: | InterVarsity Press |
| Publication date: | 01/29/2007 |
| Series: | Veritas Books |
| Pages: | 375 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Kelly Monroe Kullberg is founder of The Veritas Forum and editor of the Boston Globe bestseller Finding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Thinking Christians. Since founding the first Veritas Forum at Harvard in 1992, she has traveled across the country helping start Veritas Forums in dozens of universities.
For many years she also served as chaplain to the Harvard Graduate School Christian Fellowship. She is now director of project development for The Veritas Forum and lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface to the 2007 Edition by Kelly Monroe Kullberg
Introduction: Found by God at Harvard by Kelly Monroe
PhotosChapter 1. Questions and Turnings
Questions in a Quiet Moment by Rebecca Baer Porteous
The Inexplicable Prayers of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
My Search for the Historical Jesus by Todd Lake
After the Gang, What? By Evelyn Lewis Perera
Disillusioned by William EdgarChapter 2. A Crisis of Meaning, and the Need for Change
A Professor Under Reconstruction by Glenn Loury
A Crisis of Meaning by Richard Keyes
Harvard, What of the Light? By Hermann Hagedorn
A World Split Apart by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynChapter 3. Finding Hope, Health, and Life
On Gravity and Lift by Paul Wylie
Hope in a Secular Age by Armand Nicholi Jr.
He Send His Word and Healed Them by Michael Yang
Facing Death, Embracing Life by Brent Foster
Wonder and Wildness: On Sex and FreedomChapter 4. The Recovery of Love, Family, and Community
Childrearing Interlude by Kathryn Donovan Wiegand
The Grace That Shaped My Life by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Perfectionism, Shame and Liberation by Rodney Petersen
A Journey Toward Wholeness by Betsy Dawn Inskeep SmylieChapter 5. Pluralism and the Global Gospel
Harvard Square by Habib Malik
Christ and Karma: A Hindu's Quest for the Holy by Krister Sairsingh
Jesus, More Than a Prophet by Lamin Sanneh
Power and Gender at the Divinity School by John RankinChapter 6. Money, Race, and the Gospel of Mercy
From Prophets to Profits at HBS by Robert K. Massie Jr.
In Sorrow, Joy by Ruth Goodwin
Conversion: One Journey Outside the Gate by Jeffrey Barneson
Salvation to the Streets by Anthony ParkerChapter 7. Government and the Gospel of Justice
Crisis and Faith by Elizabeth Dole
How Did We Not Know? By Peter Clark
Cambridge, Countries, and Christ by Robert Beschel Jr.Chapter 8. Science, Technology, and the Earth
Christianity and the Scientific Enterprise by Charles Thaxton
More Than Machines by Owen Gingerich
Why Be a Scientist? By Gregory Hammett
Thorns in the Garden Planet by Vera ShawChapter 9. Renewing Education: A Light in the Yard
Judeo-Christian Versus Pagan Scholarship by Harold J. Berman
Feasting at the Table of the Lord by Peter Feaver
Called to Teach by Robert Fong
A Sense of Mystery: Reflections of a Monk by Brother JohnChapter 10. Conclusion: Veritas, Hope for the Twenty-First Century
A Hunger for God by Mother Teresa
On Abundant Life by Phillips Brooks
Alternative to Futility by Elton Trueblood
The Wonder of Being by Charles Mallik
Epilogue: A Taste of New Wine by Kelly Monroe
Postscript by Kelly Monroe Kullberg
Index
What People are Saying About This
"When I read Ari Goldman's discouraging story of not finding God at Harvard, I wished he could have known the bright and committed Christian students and faculty that I have met at Harvard. They are well-represented in this encouraging and stimulating collection of essays focused on the importance and validity of Christian faith. Here is nourishing and uplifting food for the spirit, as well as the mind. In an intellectual environment of confusion, disillusionment and cynicism, here are notes of hope, integrity and joy."
— Roberta Hestenes, former president, Eastern University
"I have long believed that too many believers weren't defeated at our premier academic institutions; they simply abandoned the territory. Kelly Monroe shows that while many believers left Harvard, God didn't, and he may continue to be found wherever people truly seek him."
— Cal Thomas, syndicated columnist
"Finding God at Harvard is a wonderful piece of work, bringing together intellectual excellence and spirituality."
— John Perkins, author, Let Justice Roll Down
"These compelling stories demonstrate that faith in search of understanding, and understanding in search of faith, go on in the most unlikely places. Finding God at Harvard testifies to the fact that God can find us anywhere."
— Richard John Neuhaus, author, The Naked Public Square, and editor-in-chief, First Things
"The greatest controversy of our age is the crisis of truth. This book is a wonderfully reasoned defense that ultimately points to the One who is the source of all truth."
— Charles W. Colson, chairman, Prison Fellowship Ministries
"It is only natural that those who seek the truth, be it intellectual or spiritual, will only find what they are searching for in the person of Christ."
— Kay Coles James, author, Never Forget and Transforming America from the Inside Out