What an interesting concept. Personal development / self improvement book recommendation:
The Logic of Love: Finding Faith Through the Heart-Mind Connection, by Halbert Katzen
"The Logic of Love is written for those who embrace love - the desire and willingness to do well for others - as the most important value in life. The tools of logic are used to fabricate a paradigm of spiritual family from the material of commonly shared experiences. This structure is held together with love. "
"The Logic of Love demonstrates how faith in God can be a logical extension of love. If you do not have faith in God, this book offers an approach to faith that does not play upon your emotions or ask you to believe testimonials. In fact, it is written from an agnostic perspective. If you do have faith, but have trouble communicating to others that this is reasonable, the ideas presented here can help you express your faith to others as a logical and loving approach to life. This is a conversation about spirituality that is based on nothing more than love and freewill. It is not about trying to prove the existence of God. It is about exploring the possibilities and making a choice."
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The Logic of Love
Table of Contents
Prologue
Introduction
- Love
- Reasoning and Experience
- Freewill
- God
- How To Safely Mix Love, Logic, Freewill, and God
- A Definition Beyond Words
- The Danger of Faith Based on Anecdotes
- The Knowledge-versus-Belief Dilemma
- Why Spiritual Beliefs Look Like Secular Knowledge
- Faith to Last a Lifetime
- Feeling Faithful versus Choosing Faith
- A Few Words to the Faithful
For The Love of Love
Intuitive Faith versus Logical Faith
Being A League Player - Religion
- Is Imperfection a Good Idea?
- It's Just Not Fair
And Justice for All
The Mercy of Nonintervention - What Evil Lurks?
- It's a Matter of Proof
- The Geometry Analogy
- Competing Paradigms
- The Nature of Faith as a Choice
- Freeing One's Self From Past Experience
- Love is the Greatest
- The Integrity of Faith-Beliefs
- Love is in the Present
Fear: The Seed of Selfishness
Letting Go of Judgment - Join the Club
- Transforming the Generic God into a Name Brand
- Three Crucial Connotations
We Are Children Of God
We Are Persons With God
We Have Freewill - Spirituality and Emotions
- 3D Love
Part I: Defining Love, Logic, Freewill, and God
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