Socrates in the City, Edited by Eric Metaxas
Socrates in the City, Edited by Eric Metaxas
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Socrates in the City
Conversations on Life, God, and Other Small Topics

Author: Edited by Eric Metaxas

Narrator: Eric Metaxas and the contributing authors

Unabridged: 14 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/13/2011


Synopsis

Following the extraordinary success of the New York Times bestseller Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas latest book offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts about the great questions surrounding us all today. The Greek philosopher Socrates famously said that the unexamined life is not worth living. Taking this as a starting point, Eric Metaxas founded a speaking series that encouraged busy and successful professionals to attend forums and think actively about the bigger questions in life; thus Socrates in the City: Conversations on Life, God, and Other Small Topics was born. This book is for the seeker in all of us, the collector of wisdom, and the person who asks, What if? Within this collection of original essays that were first given to standingroomonly crowds in New York City are serious thinkers taking on Life, God, Evil, Redemption, and other small topics. Luminaries such as Dr. Francis Collins, Sir John Polkinghorne, N. T. Wright, Os Guinness, and Peter Kreeft have written about extraordinary topics vital to both secular and Christian thinking, such as Making Sense out of Suffering, Can an Atheist Be a Good Citizen?, and How Good Confronts Evil: Lessons from the Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. No question is too bigin fact, the bigger, the harder, the more complex the better. These essays are both thoughtprovoking and entertaining, because nowhere is it written that finding answers to lifes biggest questions shouldnt be exciting and even, perhaps, fun.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jude

I would love to give this book a higher rating as some of the speeches contained within it are very absorbing and interesting, but I can't. The biggest problem I have with this book is that it claims to be a collection of philosophical discussions on some very important issues (life, God, the univer......more

Goodreads review by Julie

Rediscovered this when looking through my old Audible purchases. Am enjoying it all over again. ======= I really enjoyed listening to the recordings of all these talks by such a variety of speakers. The Q&As for the most part were also really interesting. The one thing I didn't always love was Eric Me......more

Goodreads review by Nathan

It is easy to see what Metaxas is trying to do with this work, and it is something that can (and probably should) be done by others.  Not all readers, even those who are generally fond of the author's work in general [1], are likely to appreciate this book, especially the way it is formatted.  Some......more

"Hmmm ..." This I repeated several times throughout the book having come across a thought-provoking point brought out by the speakers. There were a few talks that I had to re-read multiple times in order to mine the treasures of the esteemed speakers. The nature of the content, that of what are esse......more