Something Greater is Here

by Kenneth J. Howell

Overview

What does a man do when he arrives at a place in his career where he is doing what he always wanted to do, only to find that he really wanted something more? In his mid-thirties Kenneth Howell was teaching in a Protestant seminary after nine years of Presbyterian ministry. After receiving the highest degree possible in his field, he was exactly where he wanted to be. The future looked very bright. But two nagging questions wouldn’t let him alone. Is what he believes really true? Does he really understand what it means to be a Christian? And the second: is this all there is to being a Christian? Could there be a deeper spirituality out there that he had not yet encountered? Those questions kept Kenneth Howell up at night. He tried to avoid, ignore, and suppress them, but they wouldn’t go away. He was faced with a tough choice. Either pursue the truth and the God of all truth with integrity and zeal, or sit back into a comfortable life of familiar places and familiar faces. He decided that he really had no choice. It was all or nothing. As he tried to answer these questions, Kenneth Howell began to find life more difficult, not easier. His pursuit of truth, goodness, and love gradually led him into a world he had only vaguely glimpsed from afar. It was a world filled with things he had always longed for. It was the fullness of truth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780692578391
Publisher:	CHResources
Publication date:	11/17/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	90
File size:	162 KB

About the Author

Kenneth J. Howell, Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, is director of the John Henry Cardinal Newman Institute of Catholic Thought and Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Illinois. Dr. Howell is the author of several books and, holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from Indiana University, is a seasoned scholar of ancient Greek, and also has a Ph.D. in the history of Christianity and science from the University of Lancaster (U.K.). A Presbyterian minister for 18 years and a theological professor for seven years in a Protestant seminary, Dr. Howell was confirmed and received into the Catholic Church in 1996. He and his wife, Sharon, have three children. They live in Champaign, Illinois.