Agnostic in the Fellowship of Christ

David K. Goodin is lecturer for the McGill School of Religious Studies, Professeur Associé at the Université Laval, Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe de Montréal, and instructor for the Pappas Patristic Institute at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.

• 1. Ethical Mysticism2. Bach and Aesthetics3. Bach and Mysticism4. Schweitzer as Preacher 5. On Knowing God6. Pauline Christianity7. Absolutism and Realism 8. At the Border-Crossing 9. The Cost of Discipleship

David K. Goodin offers a much-needed reassessment of Albert Schweitzer—the man and his ideas, especially the ethical mysticism at the heart of his answer to the spiritual malaise of his time, and ours. Interweaving biography, the observations of others, and Schweitzer’s own autobiographical writings, Goodin offers a nuanced portrait of a Christian who eschewed dogma, affirmed the value, and the limits, of science and reason, admitted to an agnosticism regarding God, yet modeled his life on that of Jesus and sought to live the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount. For those disillusioned with the exclusivist dogma, hypocrisy, and disengagement of their Christian heritage, Schweitzer, and Goodin, offer an alternate way to discipleship through active love, with precedent in the apophatic theology of the early church; and for any reader, religious or not, a way to embrace life and live compassionately and responsibly with an open heart and open mind.