Binding: PaperbackPage Count: 336Publisher: Riverhead Books (Penguin) ISBN#: 9781594483493 Availability: Usually ships the same business day.
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In this New York Times bestselling book, Timothy Keller addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics, and even ardent believers, have about religion. Using literature, philosophy, real-life conversations, and potent reasoning, Keller explains how the belief in a Christian God is, in fact, a sound and rational one. To true believers he offers a solid platform on which to stand their ground against the backlash to religion created by the Age of Skepticism. And to skeptics, atheists, and agnostics, he provides a challenging argument for pursuing The Reason for God . The God Delusion .
God Is Not Great .
Letter to a Christian Nation . Bestseller lists are filled with doubters. But what happens when you actually doubt your doubts?
The Reason for God ,
he single-handedly dismantles each of them. Written with atheists,
agnostics, and skeptics in mind, Keller also provides an intelligent
platform on which true believers can stand their ground when bombarded
by the backlash. The Reason for God challenges such ideology at its core and points to the true path and purpose of Christianity. "A tight, accessible case for reasoned religious belief." -- The Washington Post "Convincing. . . Refreshing. . . An excellent conversation-starter, this book presents a valid, well-written, and well-researched argument." -- Library Journal
"Keller
mines material from literary classics, philosophy, anthropology and a
multitude of other disciplines to make an intellectually compelling
case for God. Written for skeptics and the believers who love them, the
book draws on the author's encounters as founding pastor of New York's
booming Redeemer Presbyterian Church. One of Keller's most provocative
arguments is that "all doubts, however skeptical and cynical they may
seem, are really a set of alternate beliefs." Drawing on sources as
diverse as 19th-century author Robert Louis Stevenson and contemporary
New Testament theologian N.T. Wright, Keller attempts to deconstruct
everyone he finds in his way, from the evolutionary psychologist
Richard Dawkins to popular author Dan Brown. The first, shorter part of
the book looks at popular arguments against God's existence, while the
second builds on general arguments for God to culminate in a sharp
focus on the redemptive work of God in Christ. Keller's condensed
summaries of arguments for and against theism make the scope of the
book overwhelming at times. Nonetheless, it should serve both as
testimony to the author's encyclopedic learning and as a compelling
overview of the current debate on faith for those who doubt and for
those who want to reevaluate what they believe, and why."
--Publisher's Weekly
--Christianity Today magazine
--The New York Times
--New York magazine
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is, in our opinion, the best book available applying presuppositional
apologetics to the questions of a postmodern generation. It is not a
theoretical book, but practical in every sense, as Keller uses
real-world examples to answer the most difficult questions of
skeptics, effectively using the presuppositional method of apologetics
. A must-own book. One that we would feel comfortable actually
putting into the hands of our secular friends. --Monergism Books
