Bücher von Richard Harries

Perceptive portraits of twenty renowned writers, with illuminating reflections on their struggles with faith and life, and on the way faith is explored in some their greatest works

Life is at once wonderful and appalling, beautiful and horrific. How can we live with this contradiction? And how can we believe in a just and loving God in the face of all the evils of the world in which we have evolved?

Richard Harries has been at the heart of thinking about issues include cloning, human-animal hybrids and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. He shows that the Western Christian tradition is compatible with work in this area.

The Bishop of Oxford listens to and answers questions about God and Christianity. He deals with such issues as: religion keeps people immature; Christianity is anti-life; religion is divisive and stuck in the past; and why is there suffering?