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Socrates in the City
Eric Metaxas
4.04 (500 Reviews)
Philosophy
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Self-growth
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Questions Fréquentes

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Join New York's intellectual elite as Metaxas hosts mind-expanding conversations with Francis Collins, N.T. Wright, and other luminaries. What happens when faith meets philosophy in a Manhattan salon? ABC News calls it "photogenic, witty faith in public life."

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When Manhattan's Elite Gather to Ask Life's Biggest Questions

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What if New York's most exclusive clubs became venues not for networking or deal-making, but for wrestling with the questions that have haunted humanity since Socrates walked the streets of Athens? For over a decade, this unlikely vision has become reality through Socrates in the City, where Hollywood celebrities, political commentators, and Wall Street executives gather to explore faith, reason, and meaning. The gatherings prove that even in our cynical age, people hunger for more than small talk and status updates. They want to know: Is there a God? Why do we suffer? What makes life worth living? These conversations, now captured in book form, offer something rare-intellectual rigor without pretension, profound questions without pat answers. In a world that increasingly treats existence as accidental and meaning as manufactured, these dialogues remind us that the deepest questions still demand our attention, and that truth, beauty, and goodness still draw crowds in the city that never sleeps.

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The Universe's Impossible Precision and the Harmony of Faith and Reason

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Why Bad Things Happen to Everyone

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The Father Wound That Shapes Our Faith and the Foundations of Good Citizenship

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The Danger of Becoming Our Own Creators and Finding Purpose Through Brokenness

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Where Heaven Touches Earth and the Examined Life Continues

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