An autobiographical polemic, or in more racy parlance – An autobiography with attitude.
Woven around the events in my life and known facts about the life of the universe an argument for the authenticity of Christian faith.
The narrative whilst it describes personal experiences interprets them in a way that have a general significance and addresses questions every thinking persons contemplates.
From humble origins Sidney Beecroft is inspired to pursue grand ambitions to be a Christian Minister. But the achievement of his goal is to be sabotaged by a mid-life crisis which wreaks havoc on his career and relationships.
Having stretched out his mid-life crisis over best part of two decades entirely motivated by a work hard/play hard philosophy he is finally brought to his knees by the property crash of the late 1980s.
The climb back to solvency and stability is slow but sure so that his humble origins are matched by a humble retirement. But in that retirement, “What dreams may come”
Now in his 8th decade the inspirations returns, the agent of that inspiration is not this time an evangelist but a theoretical physicist. Through his reading of cosmology and physics he describes in as simple terms as possible the argument for the harmony of science and religion. Evolving knowledge about the nature of the universe is, he proposes, moving us ever closer to theological claims about the meaning of life.