A Meaningful Life and a Solution to the “God Wars” Offered in Award-Winning New Book
"Return to Meaning: The American Psyche in Search of its Soul," by Dr. Andrew Cort, D.C., J.D., Redefines Religious Meaning and Its Importance for a Scientific Age.
Boston, MA, April 27, 2009 --(PR.com)-- “This learned and inspirational book,” writes noted author and social commentator George Gilder, “rescues philosophy from the mathematicians, sex from the hedonists, religion from empty sanctimony, and science from barren materialism. A must read for all of us who seek a guidebook for meaningful life in the new millennium.”
Dr. Andrew Cort has launched a new website, http://www.andrewcort.com, providing information on his books and seminars, with Free Excerpts, customer reviews, and related articles, on the topics of Religion, Spirituality, Education, Science, Holistic Healing, and Contemporary American Culture. (He has also begun a new blog, “Religion, Science and American Life” which can be found at www.andrewcort.blogspot.com.)
If there is a God, Cort asks, and if God is all-powerful and good, then why would God create such a difficult world?
Does religion have a credible answer? Morality, as secularists know, does not require a deity. Blind faith, as atheists know, often leads to hatred, violence and war. Taking scriptural stories as literal accounts of history, as scientists know, borders on the nonsensical. There has to be more.
And there is. In his new book, "Return to Meaning: The American Psyche in Search of its Soul", Dr. Andrew Cort demonstrates that when western myths and scriptures are interpreted in an inner, symbolic, psychological way – rather than merely as literal history – they are all found to have the same underlying meaning and purpose: the enlightenment of the human soul. When this is understood, the justification for religious bigotry disappears, the atheist observation that “these stories are not rational” becomes irrelevant (even if true), and the enmity between science and religion is defused.
Through allegory and symbol, the stories in the Bible weave the tale of a soul - your soul - that has descended into material life and must now do the work to find its way home again. This inner journey, the basis for all 'Sacred Quest' legends, has been called "The Return to the Promised Land", "Persephone's Ascent to Olympus", "The Resurrection of the Soul", "The Quest of the Holy Grail", and many other names. Everything that happens along the way – the wars, the joys, the obstacles that are overcome - must all occur within oneself.
In Part 1 of this groundbreaking book, Dr. Cort unlocks the universal symbolic code (still preserved in Plato and other ancient writers) that is used throughout these stories. Part 2 describes the soul’s journey of Creation and Return as it is revealed in Greek Mythology, the Torah, the Gospels, and the Qur’an, thus revealing the stunning underlying unity of all our western religious traditions. Lastly, Part 3 discusses the terrible cost that has resulted from ignoring, trivializing, or misunderstanding these traditions, and the possibility of restoring a genuine sense of meaning and purpose to our lives and culture.
Rev. Janet Mckinstry has said of ‘Return to Meaning: The American Psyche in Search of its Soul’, “Cort demonstrates that all religious traditions have the common aim of teaching a method for enlightening our souls. When this shared noble purpose is understood, a sense of sacred meaning is restored to our lives and there is no further need for religious hatred and bigotry. All of this is made clear in a book that is entertaining, inspiring, beautifully written, and filled with amazing insights into biblical passages that have perplexed generations of scholars (I was especially moved by Cort’s exploration of the Feminine aspect of creation). His real genius is that he takes complex theology and explains it for the everyday reader.”
For more information, including a 'Press and Media Room' and a full-service Religious Bookstore, please click here now: http://www.andrewcort.com
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Dr. Andrew Cort has launched a new website, http://www.andrewcort.com, providing information on his books and seminars, with Free Excerpts, customer reviews, and related articles, on the topics of Religion, Spirituality, Education, Science, Holistic Healing, and Contemporary American Culture. (He has also begun a new blog, “Religion, Science and American Life” which can be found at www.andrewcort.blogspot.com.)
If there is a God, Cort asks, and if God is all-powerful and good, then why would God create such a difficult world?
Does religion have a credible answer? Morality, as secularists know, does not require a deity. Blind faith, as atheists know, often leads to hatred, violence and war. Taking scriptural stories as literal accounts of history, as scientists know, borders on the nonsensical. There has to be more.
And there is. In his new book, "Return to Meaning: The American Psyche in Search of its Soul", Dr. Andrew Cort demonstrates that when western myths and scriptures are interpreted in an inner, symbolic, psychological way – rather than merely as literal history – they are all found to have the same underlying meaning and purpose: the enlightenment of the human soul. When this is understood, the justification for religious bigotry disappears, the atheist observation that “these stories are not rational” becomes irrelevant (even if true), and the enmity between science and religion is defused.
Through allegory and symbol, the stories in the Bible weave the tale of a soul - your soul - that has descended into material life and must now do the work to find its way home again. This inner journey, the basis for all 'Sacred Quest' legends, has been called "The Return to the Promised Land", "Persephone's Ascent to Olympus", "The Resurrection of the Soul", "The Quest of the Holy Grail", and many other names. Everything that happens along the way – the wars, the joys, the obstacles that are overcome - must all occur within oneself.
In Part 1 of this groundbreaking book, Dr. Cort unlocks the universal symbolic code (still preserved in Plato and other ancient writers) that is used throughout these stories. Part 2 describes the soul’s journey of Creation and Return as it is revealed in Greek Mythology, the Torah, the Gospels, and the Qur’an, thus revealing the stunning underlying unity of all our western religious traditions. Lastly, Part 3 discusses the terrible cost that has resulted from ignoring, trivializing, or misunderstanding these traditions, and the possibility of restoring a genuine sense of meaning and purpose to our lives and culture.
Rev. Janet Mckinstry has said of ‘Return to Meaning: The American Psyche in Search of its Soul’, “Cort demonstrates that all religious traditions have the common aim of teaching a method for enlightening our souls. When this shared noble purpose is understood, a sense of sacred meaning is restored to our lives and there is no further need for religious hatred and bigotry. All of this is made clear in a book that is entertaining, inspiring, beautifully written, and filled with amazing insights into biblical passages that have perplexed generations of scholars (I was especially moved by Cort’s exploration of the Feminine aspect of creation). His real genius is that he takes complex theology and explains it for the everyday reader.”
For more information, including a 'Press and Media Room' and a full-service Religious Bookstore, please click here now: http://www.andrewcort.com
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