God-Curious: Exploring Eternal Questions

In this short meditation on the meaning and importance of the theological quest, psychologist Cherry frames the discussion in a helpful way, viewing study as “fun, fascinating, and important.” Cherry peeks into the many corners of the questioning world (both religious and not), from Socrates to Richard Dawkins, to flesh out his thesis. This approach works well as he paints a picture of an all-encompassing approach to the contemplation of religious ideas. Chapter 8 cleverly presents the study to a modern audience with “A History of Christian Theology in Fewer than Twenty Tweets.” Drawing from the Bible and other texts, Cherry distills the theological quest into bite-sized units, focusing on ideas that relate to a contemporary audience seeking answers to their highest questions. “Theology today has a huge and complex agenda, which can perhaps be boiled down to one very short, eternal question: What really matters?” This nicely sums up Cherry’s thesis in this very readable, illuminating work. (Feb.)