The Quest for Reality and Significance Series (6 vols.)

by David Gooding; John C. Lennox

Publisher:

Myrtlefield House

, 2018–2019

Overview

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.

Key Features

• Considers questions surrounding the value of humans
• Presents a selection of notable but diverse ethical theories
• Addresses difficult questions and possible solutions

Being Truly Human: The Limits of Our Worth, Power, Freedom and Destiny

• Authors: David Gooding and John Lennox
• Series: The Quest for Reality and Significance
• Publisher: Myrtlefield
• Publication Date: 2018
• Pages: 368

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

In Book 1 – Being Truly Human, Gooding and Lennox address issues surrounding the value of humans. They consider the nature and basis of morality, compare what morality means in different systems, and assess the dangerous way freedom is often devalued. What should guide our use of power? What should limit our choices? And to what extent can our choices keep us from fulfilling our potential?

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

• Authors: David Gooding and John Lennox
• Series: The Quest for Reality and Significance
• Publisher: Myrtlefield
• Publication Date: 2018
• Pages: 268

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

In Book 2 – Finding Ultimate Reality, Gooding and Lennox 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.

Questioning Our Knowledge: Can We Know What We Need to Know?

• Authors: David Gooding and John Lennox
• Series: The Quest for Reality and Significance
• Publisher: Myrtlefield
• Publication Date: 2018
• Pages: 412

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

In Book 3 – Questioning Our Knowledge, Gooding and Lennox discuss how we could know whether any of these competing worldviews are true. What is truth anyway, and is it absolute? How would we recognize truth if we encountered it? Beneath these questions lies another that affects science, philosophy, ethics, literature and our everyday lives: how do we know anything at all?

Doing What’s Right: Whose System of Ethics is Good Enough

• Authors: David Gooding and John Lennox
• Series: The Quest for Reality and Significance
• Publisher: Myrtlefield
• Publication Date: 2018
• Pages: 428

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

In Book 4 – Doing What’s Right, Gooding and Lennox present particular ethical theories that claim to hold the basic principles everyone should follow. They compare the insights and potential weaknesses of each system by asking: what is its authority, its supreme goal, its specific rules, and its guidance for daily life? They then evaluate why even the best theories have proven to be impossible to follow consistently.

Claiming to Answer: How One Person Became the Response to Our Deepest Questions

• Authors: David Gooding and John Lennox
• Series: The Quest for Reality and Significance
• Publisher: Myrtlefield
• Publication Date: 2018
• Pages: 278

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In Book 5 – Claiming to Answer, they argue it is not enough to have an ethical theory telling us what standards we ought to live by, because we often fail in our duties and do what we know is wrong. How can we overcome this universal weakness? Many religions claim to be able to help, but is the hope they offer true? Gooding and Lennox state why they think the claims of Jesus Christ are valid and the help he offers is real.

Suffering Life’s Pain: Facing the Problems of Moral and Natural Evil

• Authors: David Gooding and John Lennox
• Series: The Quest for Reality and Significance
• Publisher: Myrtlefield
• Publication Date: 2018
• Pages: 282

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

In Book 6 – Suffering Life’s Pain, they acknowledge the problem with believing in a wise, loving and just God who does not stop natural disasters or human cruelty. Why does he permit congenital diseases, human trafficking and genocide? Is he unable to do anything? Or does he not care? Gooding and Lennox offer answers based on the Creator’s purpose for the human race, and his entry into his own creation.

About the Authors

David W. Gooding is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Greek at Queen’s University Belfast and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has taught the Bible internationally and lectured on both its authenticity and its relevance to philosophy, world religions and daily life. He has published scholarly articles on the Septuagint and Old Testament narratives, as well as expositions of Luke, John, Acts, Hebrews, the New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament, and several books addressing arguments against the Bible and the Christian faith. His analysis of the Bible and our world continues to shape the thinking of scholars, teachers and students alike.

John C. Lennox is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School, University of Oxford. In addition, he is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, as well as being a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum. In addition to academic works, he has published on the relationship between science and Christianity, the books of Genesis and Daniel, and the doctrine of divine sovereignty and human free will. He has lectured internationally and participated in a number of televised debates with some of the world’s leading atheist thinkers.