Description: In the passage to modernity we in the West have lost the ability to see things whole. We've closed our minds to all things transcendent and default to unbelief, and can't make sense of the persistent echoes of the voice of God that reverberate in our souls. In Rediscovering God's Grand Story, James Roseman picks up the strands of science, philosophy, history, the arts, and theology, and reweaves the tapestry to see a coherent story that makes the best sense of the world and provides real meaning and significance to our lives--God's Grand Myth. We see that the signals of transcendence that confound our culture of doubt are a universal language and vocabulary of the heart echoing the voice of God; and in the very Judeo-Christian story we so readily jettison is found the Author enabling us to see the world whole again. This essay tells why the story and promise of Christianity is so hard to hear today but won't go away. Could it be that, as T. S. Eliot wrote in the mid-twentieth century, "at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time"?
Brief description: James M. Roseman is a writer living in Dallas, Texas. His newest book, Habits of the Heart, a historical novel. He is married to the love of his life Janet, his best first reader and critic (mostly constructive). He is a fellow of the Lewis Tolkien Society, an elder at Highland Park Presbyterian Church, and is a lay theologian and philosopher as reflected in his first book, Rediscovering God's Grand Story: In a Fragmented World of Pieces and Parts (2017). He had a long career in business as a banker and a management consultant before becoming a writer.