Grand Central Question: Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews
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All religions and worldviews seek to answer the fundamental questions of human existence: Why am I here? What does it mean to be human? Why is there evil in the world and how do we deal with it? But not every worldview places equal emphasis on each issue. The main worldviews each tend to stress a different central question. Secular humanism focuses on: What is the inherent value of human beings? Pantheism emphasizes: How do we escape suffering? Islam?s main concern is: How is God great? Abdu Murray digs deeply into these three representatives of major worldviews of our day: secular humanism, pantheism and theism (specifically in the form of Islam). This lawyer and former Muslim brings compassion, understanding and clarity to his analysis, comparing the answers of each view to the central message of Christianity.
Abdu H. Murray
Abdu H. Murray (J.D., University of Michigan) is president of Embrace the Truth International and also visiting professor of Christian thought and apologetics for the Josh McDowell Institute at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. He has spoken across the United States and around the world and has been a featured guest on numerous national and international television and radio programs, including Newswatch, Jesus or Muhammad? on the Aramaic Broadcasting Network, and SRN News. Murray is the author of Apocalypse Later and a contributor to a number of books on apologetics and missiology. He is also host of the Detroit area radio show "Embrace the Truth with Abdu Murray."
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Reviews for Grand Central Question
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murray's book is a good example of why Christians need to encourage books written by people of different backgrounds. Murray, who is part of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, was a lawyer and Muslim who became a Christian and works in apologetics. Zacharias' ministry isn't well known for looking at worldview based arguments so Murray's venture into the area was surprising.
Murray's writing doesn't add too many things new into the subject if you've reading books on the topic before. However, if this is your primer it is a good one. A unique item from Murray is his devotion to looking at polytheism in a worldview (adding Buddhism into the mix as well). I haven't seen too much space devoted to it from other writers on the topic but Murray makes the case for polytheistic systems not being internally consistent or able to explain what they must from the world.
However, I think Murray shines most when he looks at Islam. Considering this is his previous religion that's not too surprising. The gold chapters were Murray's coverage of the Trinity and Jesus as God. That is not to say that his coverage of the trustworthiness of Scripture and the character of God isn't as insightful. Those chapters really show why we benefit from reading what we might have once read before or have come to hold as our own belief from another writer.
Murray, at times, does fall back on an evidential argument instead of maintaining focus on presuppositional ones a few times. However, this was still a worthwhile book and I learned a few good arguments especially when it comes to the topic of Islam. Final Grade - B