| Summary: | What is God Like? intends to guide us to ways to answer our own questions about what God is like, the essential questions of our intellectual and personal lives. We will not, of course, learn everything or even very much. Yet, as Aristotle remarked, what little we can learn is worth all of our lives and efforts. This book begins, in its own way, to tell us why Aristotle was right, why our own questions about God are ones that will not go away even if we ignore them. In looking at the Maritains, Camus, Samuel Johnson, Chesterton, or even at Charlie Brown and the Wodehouse clergy, we can see that the hints and images are there if we will begin to see them. "What is God like" is our question. What is God Like? is designed to help us think about this question both as something personal and as something intelligible precisely to us, to ourselves, to our civilization, without forgetting the myriads of men and women who have gone before us and who have asked themselves the same question. To deal with God, one must be both serious and playful, intellectual and commonsensical. That is what this book is like
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