I’m really looking forward to Keller’s new book. As a speaker, Keller is a rare combination of calm, rational and very interesting. In the book The Reason for God: Belief in and Age of Skepticism he offers a response to any belief systems skeptical of Christianity.
Here is a short interview with Keller by Justin Taylor.
A key quote:
“If you are going to be persuasive to someone, you’ve got to enter sympathetically into their objection so they say to you, ‘You articulated my point of view in a more positive and compelling way than I could have myself. Thank you!’ If you then show why their problem is nonetheless surmountable, they’ll at least listen carefully because they feel understood. I think most of the books you mention are written by authors to bolster the faith of the already convinced, or even their own faith. They don’t really ‘get into the skin’ of the typical skeptic very well. Just ask one.”
I’ve found this to be true in my reading and interactions with atheism and atheists.
