Some of the best painters, musicians, architects, writers, filmmakers, and poets have taken their idea from their religion and impacted thousands of individuals with their beautiful creations. Now readers can notice the tales at the back of seventy-five of those masterpieces and the artists who created them. From the paintings of the Roman catacombs to Rembrandt to Makoto Fujimura; from Gregorian Chant to Bach to U2; from John Bunyan and John Donne to Flannery O'Connor and Frederick Buechner; this ebook unveils the wealthy and sundry creative historical past left by way of believers who have been masters at their craft.

Author and historian Terry Glaspey stocks the soaking up actual tales at the back of those masterpieces and is helping readers see the interesting information they could have neglected. via searching through the eyes of those inventive artists, readers will achieve deeper views in regards to the human , the Christian tale, and their very own non secular lives.

“For over thirty years now we have learn and heard Margaret Miles on Augustine, and her insights in this striking historical were compelling. Now we learn Miles in Augustine's Confessions, and her self-disclosure is as compelling as Augustine's. this can be a soul-rending ebook that opens the realm of Augustine to the area of a fundamentalist's daughter. now we have identified for a very long time that scholarly examine displays the lifestyles adventure of the coed, yet Miles has taken this either to new heights and new depths. This publication unearths either Augustine and the area of a fundamentalist, and it really is easily wonderful in its intensity of disclosure and revelation—all what we have now come to anticipate from Augustine and now from Miles.”
-Richard Valantasis
Co-director, Institute for Contemplative residing, Santa Fe
Canon Theologian for Formation and schooling, Diocese of the Rio Grande

“Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter is a revealing, vigorous, and deeply engrossing dialog between many audio system, from Saint Augustine to fashionable poets to the a number of voices age and perception have given Professor Miles on her personal trip from fundamentalism to knowledge. during this publication, we meet the wealthy tapestry of life's defeats, fears, delights, and adjustments within the vignettes of thoughts narrated from both Augustine's new nation of restful religion or Margaret Miles's hard-won position of gracefully sincere mirrored image. discover a quiet room, pull up a chair, and hear this terrific student and instructor speak along with her longtime mentor, Augustine, approximately lifestyles, love, intercourse, religion, and kin. it's a dialog to not be missed.”
-Mary Ann Tolbert
George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical Studies
Vice President of educational Affairs and Dean
Pacific institution of faith, Berkeley

Margaret R. Miles is Emerita Professor of historic Theology on the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. She is the writer of a fancy satisfaction: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350–1750 (2008).

'Through the lens of neuroscience, McHargue makes his case for valuing faith now not for its genuine explanatory energy yet really for its skill to provide desiring to human lifestyles . . . if you worry technological know-how will rob them of either God and Christian neighborhood, this paintings could provide much-needed wish that Christianity and technology can coexist.'
-Publishers Weekly

'I completely suggest this e-book. it truly is written with humility, honesty and a liberal sprinkling of humour ... not just thought-provoking, but in addition a jolly strong learn ... A overview doesn't do it justice, so I recommend you learn the book!'
- Methodist Recorder

What do you do while God dies? it is a query dealing with hundreds of thousands this day, as technological know-how unearths a universe that is self-creating, western tradition departs from its Christian historical past and the assumption of God starts to appear incredible at most sensible and barbaric at worst.

Mike McHargue is aware the discomfort of unravelling trust. In Finding God within the Waves, Mike tells the tale of ways his evangelical religion dissolved into atheism as he studied the Bible, a main issue that threatened his identification, his friendships or even his marriage. Years later, Mike used to be status at the beaches of the Pacific Ocean while a bewildering, likely mystical second inspired him to take one other glance. yet this time, it wasn't theology or scripture that led him again to God - it used to be technological know-how.

In Finding God within the Waves, 'Science Mike' attracts on his own event to inform the not going tale of ways technology led him again to religion. between different revelations, we research what mind scans exhibit approximately what occurs once we pray; how fundamentalism impacts the psyche; and the way God is printed not just in scripture, yet within the evening sky, in subatomic debris, and in us.

For the trustworthy and sceptic alike, Finding God within the Waves is a robust, page-turning examine belonging, life's largest questions, and the wish of realizing God in an age of science.