Chapter Thirteen: Surprised By Meaning
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: SURPRISED BY MEANING
1. Pascal, Pensées, 19.
2. Ursula Goodenough, The Sacred Depths of Nature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 10.
3. See further Richard Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 17–54.
4. C. S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?” in C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces, ed. Lesley Walmsley (London: HarperCollins, 2000), 1–21, with quote from 21.
5. Roy Baumeister, Meanings of Life (New York: Guilford Press, 1991), 29–57.
6. As noted and documented by Richard Weikart, From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
7. Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009), 244–69.
8. See, for example, James Schmidt, What Is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996).
9. See the analysis in Robert J. Louden, The World We Want: How and Why the Ideals of the Enlightenment Still Elude Us (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
10. See the classic analysis in Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988).
11. Michael J. Sandel, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
12. Maurice S. Friedman, Martin Buber: The Life of Dialogue, 4th ed. (London: Routledge, 2002).
13. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions 1.1.1.
14. For a detailed theological commentary on Herbert’s Elixir, from which this stanza is taken, see Alister McGrath, “The Gospel and the Transformation of Reality: George Herbert’s ‘Elixir,’” in The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2010), 45–55.
15. For a classic account of this point, see Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002).
16. Paul writes, e.g., “I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do” (Rom. 7:18–19).
17. See Alister McGrath, Heresy: A History of Defending the Truth (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2009), 159–70.