Echoes of a Voice

James W. Sire (PhD, University of Missouri) has been a professor of English literature, philosophy, and theology, chief editor of InterVarsity Press, and a lecturer in many universities in the United States, Canada, Eastern and Western Europe, and Asia. He is the author of twenty books, including 'The Universe Next Door' (1976), now in its fifth edition and translated into eighteen languages.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPermissions1 Signals, Signals, and More Signals: Introduction and Definition2 Holy, Holy, Holy: Signals in the Bible3 Am I Stepping on God? A Philosophical Theology of Transcendence4 Christ in Ten Thousand Places: Signals of Transcendence in Christian Experience5 Darkness Out of Light: Signals Rejected, Naturally6 Bright Footprints of God: The Role of Signals in Conversion from Atheism to Christianity7 Spots of Time: Deism, Panentheism, Romanticism8 Everything Much, Nothing at All: Nirvana as Negative Cosmic Consciousness9 I Am God: Transcendence as Immanent in the Self10 Echoes and Arguments: Signals in ApologeticsBibliographyIndex

What makes this book worth reading is... [H]is engagement with such a wide variety of poetry and literature. He gives a fascinating analysis of Pascal's poem, Memorial, for instance.... I hope Sire's work will inspire more Christian theologians and philosophers to write on question like why we find storie and poetic language so powerful? What is the trascendent power of fiction art?.... I think questions like these should also pique the interest of non-believers and skeptics as well.