Gospel Prism

We had our first discussion on Keller’s R4G a couple of nights ago. You have to give some notice to a book, titled in full “The Reason for God - Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, that begins with a quote … from Darth Vader! Yep, quoth Vader “I find your lack of fatih - disturbing”; with that Keller is off to the races.

- The intro is partly autobiographical, talking of TK’s early days and the start of Redeemer Pres.
- “… the population is paradoxically growing both more religious and less religious at once” (page xv). Any reaction to this thought?

- The most significant paragraph from the intro - “The only way to doubt Christianity rightly and fairly is to discern the alternate belief under each of your doubts and then to ask yourself what reasons you have for believing it. How do you know your belief is true? It would be inconsistent to require more justification for Christian belief than you do for your own, but that is frequently what happens. In fairness you must doubt your doubts. My thesis is that if you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs–you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.” (page xviii, emphasis added)