Over My Dead Body: Some Grave Questions for God

I do not like the title of this book. I do not like the cute double - entendre subtitle (Some Grave Questions for God) either. I know the political work of Mr.Forman in Israel and I think it has been most often wrongheaded and damaging. With all this I found this particular book to be an interesting, thoughtful and painfully honest look at his own fear of death, and relation to belief in God. Forman structures the book as essays which attempt to give his own personal answer to thirty- six questions about God. Here are a few examples of his questions. " Is God a figment of our imagination?" "Is there only one God?" "What are God's Powers?" " Why Pray to God?" " Can God Perform Miracles?" "Is there an afterlife : Heaven and Hell, a Soul?" Towards the end of the book , Forman writes "For me a world , without God is a world without values, existence without moral anchor, survival without purpose, a universe without order, and ultimately, life without meaning." So through and with all his tormented questioning, his deep doubting, his courageous questing for truth Forman in the end affirms a faith in God which gives him hope and meaning.