God Is the Good We Do invites believers and agnostics to return to their spiritual heritages with a changed understanding of how religions are and are not carrying out God's will. At the same time, it invites atheists to see that God is not the oldest and strongest but the youngest and weakest force in the universe, a force whose existence depends on them as much as anyone else. God Is the Good We Do appeals to both mind and heart, offering a fresh way to think about God in this scientific and media-saturated age. Michael Benedikt s book God is the Good We Do is a profound attempt to develop a new God language with which to define the human experience. He takes God out of the sky of theological debate and places this God in the depths of life. He empowers self-conscious human beings to embrace the power they have to bring God into human awareness.... I welcome this book and this author as my ally in the struggle to bring about a New Religious Reformation that is rooted in the ethics of life-affirming Goodness and that sees every religious system finally as an attempt to make us all more fully human. --Bishop (Ret.) John Shelby Spong, author of A New Christianity for a New World. Benedikt makes a comprehensive case for his theology, which he calls theopraxy, with deep learning, intellectual honesty, and humane wisdom, and his may be about the best God a full commitment to rationality will allow. --Mitchell Silver, review in Jewish Currents , April/May 2008 God is the Good We Do is a passionate and profound rethinking of the meaning of the divine in human life. Its central argument for theopraxy develops biblical, Jewish, Christian, and modern perspectives on God in original and often surprising new directions. In the process, the sacred is fundamentally tied to human goodness while human morality is invested with a powerful holiness. At once down to earth and erudite, readable and penetrating, the book explores a wide range of vital questions of moral life without losing sight of its persistent and courageous goal: locating God in life s goodness. A challenge to both religious orthodoxy and contemporary secularism, it offers a truly fresh and stimulating approach to some of the most pressing issues of our time. --John Wall, Prof. of Religion, Rutgers University, author of Moral Creativity. Michael Benedikt is the author of For An Architecture of Reality (Lumen), Deconstructing the Kimbell (Lumen), Cyberspace: First Steps (ed., MIT Press), Shelter: The 2000 Wallenberg Lecture (U. Michigan), and God, Creativity and Evolution: The Argument From Design(ers) (Centerline Books). He is ACSA Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Hal Box Chair in Urbanism and directs the Center for American Architecture and Design. Used Book in Good Condition