What I Believe
(But You Don't Have To)
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I first wrote down “What I believe” for myself, so as to clarify those conclusions about life I had arrived at over the years. For me, it was important to be able to justify my beliefs intellectually, for my own satisfaction. But in trying to turn this into a short book, I realized that some things that were evident to me required further explanation for others. I have tried to provide this, modifying and attempting to make chapters of an easily readable length. But first I have to clarify certain conventions I shall use.
Conventions:
—What we mean by “God”
One frequently ignored question whenever we talk of God is not whether “he” exists, but what we mean by God.
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A brief discussion of religious ideas from a non-traditional viewpoint that should be of interest for all those questioning what life is all about. For more about the author, see www.acolinwright.ca and www.authorsden.com/acolinwright.
About the Author
A. Colin Wright was raised in England, learning Russian during National Service in the Royal Air Force. He read modern languages (French, German, and Russian) at Cambridge University, with a Ph.D. on the twentieth-century Russian novelist and playwright, Mikhail Bulgakov. In 1963–64, he studied at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute (now University) in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). He came to Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1964, where he taught Russian language and literature until his retirement in 1999. He has published widely academically, with numerous articles on Russian and comparative literature. His major book on Bulgakov was published by the University of Toronto Press. Other publications include a novel and a collection of stories. He also writes plays, and acts and directs in the local theatre. (See for all of this: http://www.acolinwright.ca, http://www.sardiniansilver.com, http://www.cupboardfulofshoes.com, and http://www.authorsden.com/acolinwright.)
He and his wife still live in Kingston. They have two sons and four grandchildren.