Going Beyond Reason in Conversations About Faith
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Religion is irrational! New atheists trumpet the claim loudly, so much so that it's become a sort of conventional wisdom. Professing your faith in God sounds increasingly like a confession of intellectual feebleness. Belief in God sounds as cute and quaint as it does pointless. John Wilkinson contends that the irrationality of faith is its greatest asset, because rationalism itself sets artificial limits on all that we've seen -- which itself is hinting at something greater that can't be seen. In No Argument for God he turns the tables on the cult of reason, showing that it limits conversation to what happened, when what we really want is the why behind it. We settle for investigation when what we need is revelation -- the answer to all our longings. Read this book and break though the gridlock of apologetic arguments to a life-giving encounter with the God who satisfies our minds and seeks our good. - Publisher.
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Short review: Wilkinson is trying to move evangelism and other discussion about God away from a purely logical rational realm and to a more relational one. He starts by suggesting that Christianity is “nonsense” (literally outside the senses) and so cannot be fully described by language of science or reason. Instead we should embrace the non-sense of Christianity and learn other ways to talk about God.
I think this is a very good book about why logical and scientific language for Christianity is inadequate. And a pretty good book on the positive side. I would like a little more about how to talk about God positively, but it was a pretty good introduction.
My full review on my blog at http://bookwi.se/no-argument-for-god-going-beyond-reason-in-conversations-about-faith-by-john-wilkinson/