The Journey: Our Quest for Faith and Meaning (Trinity Forum Study Series) [Paperback]

Os Guinness (Author), Ginger Koloszyc (Editor)

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Series: Trinity Forum Study Series | Publication Date: September 2001

"Entrepreneurs of Life" 1576831639 Every person has a unique calling to count for good. An entrepreneur of life is one who responds to this call—who takes it on as a creative challenge, a venture of faith for the sake of good.

How do you hear and answer your call? In Entrepreneurs of Life, Os Guinness guides you through the Western tradition to understand what calling is and how you can respond. From the journals and letters of men and women who fought slavery, reinvented healthcare, and composed great music, you’ll find models to follow as you discover and answer your own call.

"The Journey" 1576831604 The events of life can stop you in your tracks and raise big questions: What is the meaning of my life? How should I live it? Where did I come from? What is my eventual destiny? To search for answers is to embark on the most important journey of your life.

In The Journey, you can investigate answers from three major perspectives—modern secularism, Eastern philosophy, and Christian faith—and form your own conclusions. If you or someone you know is engaged in a quest for faith and meaning, The Journey can help you find answers worthy of your time and commitment.

Product Details

• Paperback: 269 pages
• Publisher: Navpress Publishing Group (September 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576831604
• ISBN-13: 978-1576831601
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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More About the Author

OS GUINNESS (DPhil, Oxford University) was born in China, raised and educated in England, and moved to the United States in 1984. He directs the Trinity Forum and is a former fellow at the East-West Institute in New York. His books include The American Hour, No God But God, and The Dust of Death.

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This book is the third recently read by this reviewer from the Os Guinness edited "Trinity Forum Study Series" that is intended "to help thoughtful people examine the foundational issues through with faith acts upon the public good of modern society". As explained by the editor, this entry in the series follows the four stages integral to the quest for meaning. The first stage is when awareness of a sense of questioning or need that brings focus to consider where we are in life arises. The second stage is when we actively seek answers to the specific questions and crises raised at the first stage, considering the available guides and maps and choosing the best based on where we are and where we wish to go. The third stage addresses whether the answers found during the second stage are viable. And the fourth stage is when we begin to reach conclusions that eventually bring us to commitment.

Personal favorites include passages from "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King Jr, which addresses those in disagreement with his specific method of nonviolent civil disobedience, "The Joyful Wisdom" by Friedrich Nietzsche, which presents the "Parable of the Madman", "The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin" edited by Francis Darwin, which walks through several letters that show his change in philosophy over time, "The Wager" by Blaise Pascal, the renowned seventeenth century mathematician and philosopher, which presents an argument for taking a step of faith, and "Surprised by Joy" by C. S. Lewis, which is an entertainingly frank logical conversion account that first takes place on a double-decker bus and later en route to Whipsnade Zoo.

As with the other texts in this series, what helps make this book work are the brief author biographies which introduce each reading, as well as the hundreds of sidebar quotes by a wide selection of individuals, from a broad spectrum of world views, conveniently inserted throughout. One such example is by Viktor Frankl, an internationally renowned psychiatrist, author, founder of "logotherapy", a school of psychiatric analysis and counseling, and celebrated concentration camp survivor. "The truth is that among those who actually went through the experience of Auschwitz - the number of those whose religious life was deepened - in spite of, not because of, this experience - by far exceeds the number of those who gave up their belief. To paraphrase what La Rochefoucauld once remarked with regard to love, one might say that just as the small fire is extinguished by the storm while a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicaments and catastrophes, whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them."