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The Courage to Be
- Narrated by: Mort Crim
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 09-30-10
- Language: English
- Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $22.00
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- D. Raynal
- San Francisco,, CA USA
- 04-19-13
An essential read for the sophisticated seeker.
What made the experience of listening to The Courage to Be the most enjoyable?
I enjoyed every minute of it. I listened to the book several times as it is not an easy book to comprehend in just one reading.
What did you like best about this story?
Tillich is deep and is worth spending a great deal of time investigating. This is a timeless piece of true psychological and philosophical thought.
What does Mort Crim bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
His voice was pleasant and easy to listen to as I re-listened to the book several times.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful
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- joseph s. hill
- 09-22-14
The best ontological work Iv'e ever read.
What made the experience of listening to The Courage to Be the most enjoyable?
I was very sick of shallow treatments of this subject in my "evangelical bubble". This work was not only informative, but challenging! I hope to find more works like this in the future.
What aspect of Mort Crim’s performance would you have changed?
It was quite dry, but some how his stately sound made sense for the material.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
This book made me examine my motives and identity.
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The Courage to be Lost in a Book
This book was very challenging. Some sentences I never did decipher even after numerous times rewinding and relistening. If you want to tackle a thought provoking book this is a good one. Plan on taking at the very least twice as long as the length of the reading. I received great insights in the description of the human journey of courage to be wholly human. Accepting anxiety as part of our humanity is a breathe of fresh air in the midst of all of our striving to be good enough.
“The courage to be is rooted in the God Who appears when the God [in our small human box] has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.”
I recommend this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- Los Angeles
- 01-26-17
what is it ?
the narration is lackluster and I have to listen to it again courage I really want to understand the teaching.
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- johnathan d court
- 10-10-17
not easy to understand
not an easy read or easily comprehendable. unfortunately, this book was a waist of my time.
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- Gary A.
- 02-10-18
fantastic introduction
This book provides a very solid and succinct introduction and overview to Niebuhr's life and writings.
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- Derek
- 11-12-14
Take this with a grain of salt...
I will admit up front that my review comes from MY perspective.
I am a Zen Buddhist, but I grew up going to Christian church. From my current viewpoint I find a lot of the focus of Christianity to be judgmental and narrow minded.
But I'm also interested in "reconciling" my viewpoint with that of Christianity where possible, of finding common ground, both with the faith, and with Christians. As such, I'm open to find Christian thinkers who advocate for open minded dialog, and ecumenical leanings.
From the reviews, I thought this book would be such an opening. From the reviews, it came across as a fresh perspective, and breaking some kind of ground.
But after listening to about an hour, it really just talks in circles, and doesn't say much of anything. All I heard was blah blah blah. Maybe I needed to keep listening, and the good stuff was at the end, but I couldn't get that far.
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- David
- 05-03-13
A decent reading of a classic.
An enjoyable reminder of a fantastic contribution to theology. If you haven't read it, listen to it. Not sure why Audible asked me to rate the story!
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- Jamie charlie semrany
- 03-07-18
Read the book
Bland narration and the verbose writing style of this book made for a poor audiobook. Fortunately Tillich's ideas are worth listening to.
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- Quinton
- 09-26-17
A must read for anyone trying to understand life
brilliant existential work. very insightful and I'd recommend it to anyone trying understand life faith being self others and the world.