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"Looking for God is intensely personal and yielding to God is often surprising. Fisher says, ""Confronting the genuine joys we experience and the agony and sorrows we endure, we reach out to connect our lives with a source of meaning, an object of devotion that will anchor our lives in something more lasting than ourselves."" The Good News is that God is there for us even before we seek God, because God loves us. We respond by seeing what God offers, because in so doing, we will have a deeper understanding of what is real, what true, and what matters. Fisher says that faith is embedded in a community of faith that nourishes, refines, and confirms this Good News in daily practices of Christian living."

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Neal Fisher has used his long experience and great theological abilities to give us a lively apology for contemporary Christian believing. This book would be ideal for introducing Christian believing to inquirers. It also provides insights for those of us who attempt to articulate the faith to new generations of disciples. Will Willimon This book ventures into the key intersection of new paradigms in science and theology. It is right on point to where many of my congregation live. It will help to provoke critical conversations in the effort of both faith and science to seek understanding. Mark A. Fowler, Lead Pastor, First United Methodist Church, Madison, WI accessible volume will be used in congregational settings, for the preparation of clergy, public theologians, and other faith-based leadership by schools of theology, for personal retreat work, and for a variety of non-degree based denominational programs for equipping lay ministers. Indeed, this book has transformational potential for the Christian struggling with questions of faith in today's world. Lallene J. Rector, President, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Neal Fisher has used his long experience and great theological abilities to give us a lively apology for contemporary Christian believing. This book would be ideal for introducing Christian believing to inquirers. It also provides insights for those of us who attempt to articulate the faith to new generations of disciples. Will Willimon This book ventures into the key intersection of new paradigms in science and theology. It is right on point to where many of my congregation live. It will help to provoke critical conversations in the effort of both faith and science to seek understanding. Mark A. Fowler, Lead Pastor, First United Methodist Church, Madison, WI accessible volume will be used in congregational settings, for the preparation of clergy, public theologians, and other faith-based leadership by schools of theology, for personal retreat work, and for a variety of non-degree based denominational programs for equipping lay ministers. Indeed, this book has transformational potential for the Christian struggling with questions of faith in today's world. Lallene J. Rector, President, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

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Neal F. Fisher is Senior Scholar in Theology and President Emeritus of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. An elder in The United Methodist Church, he has served as Associate Dean at Boston University School of Theology.

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