{"product_id":"true-paradox-how-christianity-makes-sense-of-our-complex-world-9780830836765","title":"True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword Review's\u003c\/i\u003e Annual INDIEFAB Book of the Year Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do we explain human consciousness? Where do we get our sense of beauty? Why do we recoil at suffering? Why do we have moral codes that none of us can meet? Why do we yearn for justice, yet seem incapable of establishing it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAny philosophy or worldview must make sense of the world as we actually experience it. We need to explain how we can discern qualities such as beauty and evil and account for our practices of morality and law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe complexity of the contemporary world is sometimes seen as an embarrassment for Christianity. But law professor David Skeel makes a fresh case for the plausibility and explanatory power of Christianity. The Christian faith offers plausible explanations for the central puzzles of our existence, such as our capacity for idea-making, our experience of beauty and suffering, and our inability to create a just social order. When compared with materialism or other sets of beliefs, Christianity provides a more comprehensive framework for understanding human life as we actually live it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe need not deny the complexities of life as we experience it. But the paradoxes of our existence can lead us to the possibility that the existence of God could make sense of it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid A. Skeel Jr. is S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Financial Deal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIcarus in the Boardroom\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDebt's Dominion\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been interviewed on \u003ci\u003eThe News Hour, Nightline, Chris Matthews's Hardball\u003c\/i\u003e (MSNBC), National Public Radio and \u003ci\u003eMarketplace\u003c\/i\u003e, and has written for such publications as the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBooks Culture.\u003c\/i\u003e Skeel is a frequent speaker at Veritas Forums and is an elder at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. He blogs at www.trueparadoxblog.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"IVP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492176892178,"sku":"9780830836765","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5b25cc27-b17f-4651-86e5-35d9f4bce35f.jpg?v=1730574998","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/true-paradox-how-christianity-makes-sense-of-our-complex-world-9780830836765","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}