In this chapter, they discuss the power of music, experiencing the awe-inspiring beauty of nature, and building relationships as ways to deepen our hunger for God. They also emphasize the value of solitude and contemplation and the importance of mystics and contemplatives in articulating a different yet compelling experience of faith.
The dominant narrative is that Western culture is headed for ever greater levels of atheism, agnosticism, or at least departure from belief in the Christian God. Andy Crouch returns from his sabbatical to question this narrative. He points out that the dominant secular worldview of the West - deterministic, rationalistic, and reductionist - is starting to run on empty. Can this lead to a greater hunger for the Christian God? Curtis and Andy examine what Christians would need to do to meet this hunger, including reexamining our own understanding of the Gospel itself.
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World by Ian McGilchrist
At the Origins of Modern Atheism by Michael J. Buckley
The One, the Three, and the Many: God, Creation, and the Culture of Modernity by Colin Gunton