What Is God? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781585428472)

In his most intimate and revealing work, religious scholar Needleman cuts a clear path through today's clamorous debates over the existence of God, bringing an entirely new way of approaching the question of how to understand a higher power.

In this new book, Jacob Needleman-whose voice and ideas have done so much to open the West to esoteric and Eastern religious ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries-intimately considers humanity's most vital question: What is God?

With rich, vivid examples from his experiences in the classroom and other walks of life, Needleman draws us closer to the meaning andnature of this question-and shows how our present confusion about the purpose of religion and the concept of God reflects a widespread psychological starvation for a specific quality of thought and experience. In varied detail, the book describes this inner experience, and how almost all of us-atheists and believers alike-actually have been visited by it, but without understanding what it means and why its intentional cultivation is necessary for the fullness of our existence.


Author: Jacob Needleman
ISBN-10: 1585428477
ISBN-13: 9781585428472
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2010
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.10h x 5.03w x 0.90d