Why Are We Created? Increasing Our Understanding of Humanity's Purpose on Earth

Rebekah Alezander Dunlap,Sir John Templeton

ISBN 10: 1932031294 / ISBN 13: 9781932031294

Published by Templeton Press, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why Are We Created? Increasing Our Understanding of Humanity's Purpose on Earth
• Publisher: Templeton Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932031294
• ISBN 13: 9781932031294
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

While many books strive to stimulate thinking through provocative anecdotes and theories, Why Are We Created? takes a different path. It begins with a question and continues with a multitude of questions like these:

•What is the importance of recognizing the presence of the sacred within us and around us?
•How can individuals create a purposeful and fruitful way of life?
•How does happiness relate to one's purpose?
The intent of these questions is to encourage thoughtfulness, observation, and research that enlarges understanding while offering a sense of direction. The goal is to help individuals live a more useful and happy life.

Sir John and Reverend Dunlap use the questions to help readers explore the role of humility as a key to knowledge and progress. They look at the creative power of purposeful thinking and ask how life might be changed if we refuse to dwell on any thought we would not want objectified in our life. They pose questions related to consciously directing one's life.

Helping to shed light on the possible connection between spiritual principles and human concepts is commentary from a wide range of sources: the scriptures, Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein, Edward O. Wilson, Emanuel Swedenborg, Emmet Fox, A. H. Maslow, Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, among many others.

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About the Author

Rebekah Alezander Dunlap is a retired Unity minister and author of numerous books on spirituality.

Sir John Templeton was born in Winchester, Tennessee, went to Yale, and then to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He is known for his astute investment skills on Wall Street and through the Templeton Mutual Funds. In 1987 he founded the John Templeton Foundation, and he currently funds the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion