Originally written in forty consecutive days of fortunate inspiration, ‘What is God?’ asks some of the most basic and sobering existential questions of our times. These are the questions to which each of us, as human beings, attempts to attach some meaning during our brief lifetimes: Why believe, and why this or that belief? How are our notions of God used and abused by the religious and scientific mind alike? What motivates the recently popular critiques of religion, and how accurate are they? How can we come to know  ourselves as beings who live within a history which is greater than each of us, but still shapes us intimately?
 

About the Author

GREG V. LOEWEN, PHD, is a professor of liberal studies at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. The author of six books, he is an interpretation theory specialist who has taught in the humanities and social sciences for fourteen years in both the USA and Canada.