The Power of Paradox

About the Book

One thing this book is not is a tightly-reasoned argument that leads the reader inevitably to the book’s main thesis. It is rather, like its cover, a collage. It is a hundred—more or less— observations into what is deep and meaningful in life, the reality around us, that gives the impression that reality is in fact a paradox, a friendly paradox. The book looks at theology, baseball, mathematics and the Bible. And it talks a lot about particle physics and quantum mechanics. You’ll notice that it fails to mention rock stars and reality TV.

About the Author

After half a century in the parish ministry Brewster Willcox has decided to “come clean” with some questions that thoughtful members in adult study groups and Confirmation classes have raised about the “God-man” that Christianity brings to the dialogue of world religions. He has spent his life wrestling with this Jesus Christ, and now he wants to reveal his battle wounds.

Along with the rest of us, Brewster hates abusive dictators and terrorists, natural disasters and the occasional idiot that clutters up our landscape. But he just can’t stop loving this world he has been born into and has lived his life appreciating. He believes Jesus loves this 21st century world as he does.

Brewster lives, in retirement, in Muskegon, Michigan; but family and friends take him to Arizona, Connecticut, Washington, D. C. and Canada; and curiosity has taken him farther afield to Moscow, Prague, and Tetouan, Morocco. But he always loves coming home to Michigan and a cozy cottage on Crystal Lake and to the friends who challenge him and keep him alive at 77.