Apologetics is seldom funny. In part that is because souls are at stake but also because apologists are often grumpy and argumentative. So a book that is easy to read, clear and jammed full of quips, anecdotes and good arguments is refreshing. Andrew Wilson is a Brit, a pastor and, as it turns out, a good writer. His contribution to apologetics is novel not due to any originality in terms of content, but due to a conversational style that will help even the most non-apologetically inclined reader get to the end of the book. If God Then What? Begins with Wilson’s journey from “fundamentalism,” the belief that one is right…
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A Positive Note
I realize that much of my time on my blog is spent refuting something or other. So, for a change, I thought I would write something more positive. And for this blogger, a positive blog comes in the form of positively reviewing three books by authors who are refuting something or other. The first is a short, funny narrative of Evangelist, the character of the narrator’s dream, who encounters people heading in the wrong direction. Doug Wilson constructs imaginary conversations between the Christian protagonist and several instantiated worldviews. At only 95 pages, Persuasions: A Dream of Reason Meeting Unbelief is simultaneously light hearted and deadly serious. Wilson attempts to show that even unbelief must presuppose God’s existence in order to hold…