Center for Inquiry
Indiana, 350 Canal Walk, Suite A, Indianapolis.
Breakfast and registration will
begin at 8:00 am. The program will begin at 9:00 am. For more
information and to register, click
here.
Breakfast and lunch are included in the registration fee. Early
registration will help with planning and is greatly appreciated.
Dinner will be at the Rathskeller Restaurant, 401 East Michigan
Street, Indianapolis at 5:00 pm. Anyone is welcome to join us for
dinner even if you do not participate in the seminar that day. To
make reservations for dinner, email
indy@centerforinquiry.netby February 15.
Center for Inquiry
Announces Three New Hosts for its Popular Podcast, ‘Point of
Inquiry’
“We
are tremendously excited about having Chris Mooney, Karen Stollznow
and Robert Price
as hosts for our podcast,” said Ronald A. Lindsay, president and CEO
of the Center for Inquiry. “All three are smart, articulate, witty
individuals, with a depth of knowledge in their respective areas of
expertise. We expect the podcasts to be thought-provoking and
engaging—an entertaining intellectual feast. Moreover, given the
scope of topics to be covered, we anticipate we will be able to
broaden the audience for our podcast.”
Inerrant the Wind: The Evangelical Crisis
in Biblical Authority
by Robert M Price
Inerrant
the Wind argues that the 1970s witnessed a second
Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy, explain- ing what trends in
Neo-Evangelicalism
led to the "Battle for the Bible" among conservative
evangelicals. It is the only book to clarify and delineate five
distinct new positions taken on Biblical authority by evangelicals
who reject inerrancy. The book has been acclaimed by evangelical
theologians for its helpful critical insights.
When Faith Meets Reason:
Religion Scholars Reflect on Their Faith
Journeys
Polebridge Press has just released a very special title, When Faith Meets Reason:
Religion Scholars Reflect on Their Faith Journeys. In
its pages, Fellows of the Jesus Seminar address a question that
troubles many people: What happens to faith when the creeds and
confessions can no longer be squared with historical and
empirical evidence? Most critical scholars have also wrestled
with this question. Some have found ways to reconcile their
personal religious belief with the scholarship they practice.
Others have chosen to reconstruct their view of religious
meaning in light of what they have learned. But few have shared
those views publicly.
At the behest of
editor Charles W. Hedrick, thirteen scholars have taken up the
challenge to speak candidly about how they negotiate the
conflicting demands of faith and reason. Contibutors include:
Charles W. Hedrick, Glenna Jackson, Nigel Leaves,
Robert M. Price, Paul Alan
Laughlin, James M. Robinson, Mahlon H. Smith, Theodore J. Weeden,
Sr., Walter Wink, David Galston, Darren J. N. Middleton, Susan
M. Elliott, and Hal Taussig. It features a preface by Robert W.
Funk.
The October
1, 2008 issue of the
Library Journal describes the book as follows,
In
a slender book rich with large and profound ideas, Hedrick
collects 13 essays solicited from scholars in religion
(including himself) that answer the broad question of how faith
is understood when it conflicts with reason, science, or
scholarship. Their answers are remarkably varied, painfully
honest, and profoundly respectful of Christian tradition and
newer truths alike.
According to
Richard Holloway,
Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church
(retired),
The great
thing about this book is that it is not trying to convert you to
anything. Here you'll find a group of scholars letting us in on
some of their most precious and private convictions. The book is
descriptive, not prescriptive. It tells you what the writers see
from the very different places where they now stand. Readers may
or may not find their own perspective reflected here, though
Robert M. Price's essay was
an uncanny representation of my own position. This book could
lead to a dangerous epidemic of honesty among religious
thinkers.
Top Secret The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms
By Robert M. Price
America may be the land of plenty, but in the
midst of our Walmarts, enormous supermarkets, and other signs of
material surfeit, it seems that many are experiencing a gnawing
spiritual hunger. New religions, spiritualities, and religious
therapies attract throngs of believers to megachurches, Yoga
classes, and the bestseller bookshelves. The latest popular fad in
spirituality is Rhonda Byrne's The Secret, which promises both
success and spiritual fulfillment, and is endorsed by no less than
Oprah Winfrey.
If you're trying to make sense of all the
offerings in this confusing spiritual wonderland, Top Secret is
just the book for you. Noted religion scholar Robert M. Price
examines the historical roots and the current appeal of today's
pop mysticisms. Critical and appreciative at the same time, Price
applies his impressive background in theology and biblical
criticism to put these trends in perspective.
Listen to Interview
Price discusses Top Secret with host of Point of
Inquiry, David Grothe.
Clip from the documentary THE GOD WHO
WASN'T THERE
Jesus is Dead
By Robert M. Price
This
collection of writings on the resurrection of Jesus (or lack of it)
represents a selection of debate statements, books reviews, and
critiques of internet papers, as well as research reports and
original papers. Price considers the views of older apologists F.F.
Bruce, John Warwick Montgomery, and Josh McDowell, as well as newer
ones like N.T. Wright, William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, James
Patrick Holding, and Glenn Miller. The critical views of Andrew J.M.
Wedderburn, Gregory J. Riley, and Jonathan Z. Smith receive scrutiny
as well. Nor do quack books dealing with an alien Jesus or with the
Templar Jesus escape notice.
“In his
own inimitable style, Robert Price in this volume challenges Rick
Warren’s bestselling book:
A Purpose-Driven Life. With the rapier’s sword of
Price’s insight wrapped in a devastating sense of humor, he leaves
not just Warren but all similar fundamentalistic religious
leaders bleeding and exposed for what they are: anxiety driven,
survival seeking, power hungry people masquerading under the
banner of pietyor hiding behind the sounds of the
sacred.”
—John Shelby
Spong Author of A New
Christianity for a New World
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“The
wittiest, most thorough, and most devastating critique of the
religion of the Evangelicals that I have ever read. It left me
wondering how the religion of great Protestant heroes of faith
like Luther and Bunyan can have turned into the inane religion of
Ned Flanders, Homer Simpson’s neighbor.”
—Don Cupitt Anglican priest, fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge
University, religious philosopher, and the author of forty books
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“TheReason-Driven
Life is a no-holds-barred
polemic against a piece of popular evangelical theology and will
make any and all readers think.”
—Clark H. Pinnock
Professor Emeritus of Theology at
McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario
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Foreword by Julia Sweeney
"[The Reason Driven Life]
is a deeply thought out, theologically
accurate, heartfelt dismantling of Rick Warren’s (and all
Evangelicals’) worldview. Even the ideas that seem, on the surface,
to be unassailable (like Warren’s call to a life of service to
others) Price takes apart, reveals each for the sham it is, with
elegance and charm and disturbing accuracy. " -Julia
Sweeney formally of Saturday Night Live, from the foreword
Will devotees of Rick Warren's The
Purpose Driven Life take up the gauntlet and reckon with
Reason?
This chapter by chapter rejoinder to Warren's book is
a vital counterpoint to the culturally stultifying world view that
Warren promotes and that countless millions have embraced
uncritically. Along with compelling criticism, The Reason Driven
Life offers a healthier, alternative approach to wisdom and
motivation than the simplistic answers and feel-good emotionalism at
the heart of Warren’s prescription for life.
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“We
are tremendously excited about having Chris Mooney, Karen Stollznow
and Robert Price
as hosts for our podcast,” said Ronald A. Lindsay, president and CEO
of the Center for Inquiry. “All three are smart, articulate, witty
individuals, with a depth of knowledge in their respective areas of
expertise. We expect the podcasts to be thought-provoking and
engaging—an entertaining intellectual feast. Moreover, given the
scope of topics to be covered, we anticipate we will be able to
broaden the audience for our podcast.” 
