{"product_id":"taking-religion-seriously-by-charles-murray-9781641774857","title":"Taking Religion Seriously","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Millions are like me when it comes to religion: well-educated and successful people for whom religion has been irrelevant,\" Charles Murray writes. \"For them, I think I have a story worth telling.\" \u003cem\u003eTaking Religion Seriously\u003c\/em\u003e is Murray's autobiographical account of a decades-long evolution in his stance towards the idea of God in general and Christianity specifically. He argues that religion can be approached as an intellectual exercise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis account moves from the improbable physics of the Big Bang to recent discoveries about the nature of consciousness; from evolutionary psychology to hypotheses about a universal Moral Law. His exploration of Christianity delves into the authorship of the Gospels, the reliability of the texts that survive, and the scholarship surrounding the Resurrection story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMurray, the author of \u003cem\u003eComing Apart\u003c\/em\u003e and coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Bell Curve\u003c\/em\u003e, does not write as an expert. \"If you are taking religion seriously for the first time, you face the same problem I did: We are forced to decide what we make of a wide variety of topics that we do not have the option of mastering.\" He offers his personal example of how the process works. \"Maybe God needs a way to reach over-educated agnostics and that's what I stumbled into,\" he writes. \"It's a more arid process than divine revelation but it has been rewarding. And, if you're like me, it's the only game in town.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47559020216556,"sku":"9781641774857","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781641774857-taking-religion-seriously.jpg?v=1776926629","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/taking-religion-seriously-by-charles-murray-9781641774857","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}