List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Socrates' Quest: The Beginning of Wisdom
Cosmologists and Darwinists: The Limits of Science
Visions of Reality: Science and Wonder
Bad Faith: Religion as Certainty
Christian Agnosticism: Learned Ignorance
Following Socrates: A Way of Life
How to be an Agnostic: An Aphoristic A-Z
Further Reading and References
Index

If science has replaced God, is life necessarily meaningless? This book argues that the advances of science and the retreat of religion in secular society does not have to mean a life without spirituality.

Mark Vernon began his professional life as a priest in the Church of England, left an atheist, and is now a searching agnostic on such things. He is a writer and journalist, other titles including After Atheism and Wellbeing, part of the Art of Living series he edits. He writes regularly for the Guardian and the TLS, is on the faculty at The School of Life in London, and is an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck College, London. He has degrees in physics and theology, and a PhD in philosophy.