What must God be like?
By: by Pope Paul VI
Publisher: Dimension Books
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Denville, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: God; Knowableness; Attributes
Description: On a series of Wednesdays during the summer of 1970 (July 22 to September 9), Pope Paul VI spoke to the world about God. His nine talks, based on a manuscript composed in his private study, have been gathered together in this book. They form a complete whole : Paul VI himself carefully chose and elaborated their theme into a meditation on God and God's place in our lives. . . . (Introduction by Jean François Six).
Notes: With bibliographical footnotes.

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Table of contents: title: Can we know God?. The attitudes toward God ; Is God dead? ; We can get to know God ; God's mysterious nature ; Christ reveals the Father; title: Is God useless?. Is it useless to search for God? ; The one necessary being ; God is our purpose and fulfillment ; God's light in our life; title: Is God out-of-date?. History as the driving force of atheism ; Fashionable ideas, mass opinions ; A crisis in human progress; title: The temptation to destroy. Religion is life ; To renew Christianity, we must be faithful to it ; The truths of faith can be expressed in different ways; title: The temptation to find a substitute for God. How childhood religious certitudes are lost ; We need God and nothing can take His place ; The temptation of a Christianity without God; title: Searching for God. Love is search ; God is worth our search ; Positive development, negative results ; Beginning the search; title: How can we seek God?. Can we make any judgment about God without seeking Him? ; The useful function of reason ; Reason needs faith... ; ...Faith needs reason; title: Can we find God?. The goal of life's pilgrimage ; A different kind of knowledge ; God's infinite mystery ; The desire for miracles ; Other forms of attraction ; Mystical knowledge; title: A faith for our times. Why do some so stubbornly reject religion? ; How can we teach the faith today? ; Adapting the teaching of religion.