After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Lewis's book MERE CHRISTIANITY. Therefore the population is paradoxically growing both more religious and less religious at once. Which is it? 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. There are now six times more Anglicans in Nigeria alone than there are in all of the United States. Why believe anything at all?” I began to read books and arguments on both sides of these issues and slowly but surely, Christianity began to make more and more sense. Timothy Keller is renowned for his clear, reasoned approach to Christian apologetics and his book THE REASON FOR GOD: BELIEF IN AN AGE OF SKEPTICISM was named Book of the Year for 2008 by … Really interesting. There have been several massive efforts to do this in the twentieth century. Which Rationality? 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. While I had “said my prayers” for years, and while I sometimes had that inspirational, aesthetic sense of wonder at the sight of a sea or mountain, I had never experienced God’s presence personally. In both my preaching and personal interactions I’ve tried to respectfully help skeptics look at their own faith-foundations while at the same time laying bare my own to their strongest criticisms. There is no empirical proof for such a position. Buy A Seal Upon the Heart: God’s Wisdom and the Meaning of Marriage: a Devotional by Keller, Timothy (ISBN: 9781473690578) from Amazon's Book Store. One credit a month to pick any title from our entire premium selection to keep (you’ll use your first credit now). As a twelve-year-old, Kelly watched her grandfather die of cancer and her two-year-old sister undergo surgery, chemo, and radiation therapy for a brain tumor. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Similar in power and weight to Mere Christianity by Lewis, Keller eloquently walks through many of the most common questions and concerns that are asked by non believers and believers alike, and clearly presents the soundness of the logic behind the truth in a rational, reasoned, unconfrontational way. I will respectfully discern the alternate beliefs beneath each of them. Please try again. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Is skepticism or faith on the ascendancy in the world today? I thank God for him. Progressives cry out that fundamentalism is growing rapidly and nonbelief is stigmatized. The Reason for God is assuredly one of the best Tim Keller books that we’ve had the chance to enjoy. Such an admission is not only reassuring, but also humbling. Every doubt, therefore, is based on a leap of faith. It would take another, different kind of book to go into them. Tim Keller's treatment of the Christian faith is one of the most helpful books I've read. That meant the ministry, so I entered it just a few years after college. He liked the sermons “until that Jesus business came around at the end” at which point he’d stop listening. So the doubt (of moral absolutes) is a leap. I had also read the brilliant books Sapiens and Homo Deus recently which really was the first brilliant book I have read where the author has pinned his staunch beliefs in a non-spiritual human to the wall. I urge skeptics to wrestle with the unexamined “blind faith” on which skepticism is based, and to see how hard it is to justify those beliefs to those who do not share them. “All major religions are equally valid and basically teach the same thing.”. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Great stuff. Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca. So the proponents of this view do the very thing they forbid in others. Indeed, I’m afraid they will only aggravate the situation. Timothy Keller was born and raised in Pennsylvania and educated at Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Couldn’t we find ways to urge all of our citizens, whatever their religious beliefs, to admit that each religion or faith is just one of many equally valid paths to God and ways to live in the world? The conversation was courteous, intelligent, and respectful in tone. Then in the second half of the book we will examine the reasons underlying Christian beliefs. Once this situation exists it can easily spiral down into the marginalization of others or even to active oppression, abuse, or violence against them. Christianity began to seem very unreal to me, though I was unable to discern a viable alternative way of life and thought. But among the increasingly multiethnic younger professionals and the working-class immigrants there was a lush, category-defying variety of strong religious beliefs. This happens when each side has learned to represent the other’s argument in its strongest and most positive form. These books rocked me and also made me feel very sad. I was once invited to be the Christian representative in a panel discussion at a local college along with a Jewish rabbi and a Muslim imam. Drawing on sources as diverse as 19th-century author Robert Louis Stevenson and contemporary New Testament theologian N.T. Liberate the oppressed and sleep with who you wanted! By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible’s, Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company. Different from other books on the Christian faith I’ve read. I have been disappointed by so many Christian books I read- especially those that try to "prove" God. Keller's writing is lucid and accessible, and uses arguments which are intellectually convincing. Christians should reflect on the fact that such large sectors of our formerly largely Christian societies have turned their backs on faith. One survey showed that in the last several years more than a hundred churches had been started in New York City by Christians from Africa alone. It has been said before, but Tim Keller is C.S. Timothy Keller demonstrates that caring for needy people is the job of every believer—not just church deacons—as fundamental to Christian living as evangelism, nurture, and worship. ©2008 Timothy Keller (P)2008 Penguin Audiobooks. It is estimated that 10 to 25 percent of all the teachers and professors of philosophy in the country are orthodox Christians, up from less than 1 percent just thirty years ago.5 Prominent academic Stanley Fish may have had an eye on that trend when he reported, “When Jacques Derrida died [in November 2004] I was called by a reporter who wanted to know what would succeed high theory and the triumvirate of race, gender, and class as the center of intellectual energy in the academy. This is an excellent book of popular theology which presents some compelling evidence and arguments for trusting in the truth of Christianity. I seemed to see two camps before me, and there was something radically wrong with both of them. Unable to add item to List. This view saw religion as playing a role in human evolution. Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2018. Nevertheless, we launched Redeemer Presbyterian Church, and by the end of 2007 it had grown to more than 5,000 attendees and had spawned more than a dozen daughter congregations in the immediate metropolitan area. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. --Bryce Christensen Because of a variety of physical ailments from his youth, he took up the practice of Chinese healing arts, along with Taoist and Buddhist meditation, and became extremely focused on physical wellness. The answer is Yes. In the past several years, my social circle has expanded to include many friends from backgrounds very different than mine. Whether you consider yourself a believer or a skeptic, I invite you to seek the same kind of honesty and to grow in an understanding of the nature of your own doubts. Kelly’s account recalls how, as a struggler with doubt and faith, the passage about Thomas in the New Testament was a comfort to her. Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics, and even ardent believers, have about religion. Tim Keller's The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism (TRG, hereafter) is the result of the many questions about God and Christianity pastor Keller has received over the years during his time at … How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell? By then she was living and working in the city. But by recognizing that image, Keller affirms, we open sacred possibilities not only for redemption in the hereafter but also for social justice here and now. This item: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller Paperback CDN$22.77. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn’t fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican. It further grounded my own heart in the strength of the arguments for the truths I believe, and I am deeply grateful for the increased confidence I feel in dialoguing with friends with other perspectives. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. In the past several years, my social circle has expanded to include many friends from backgrounds very different than mine. If he is willing to compromise in one place, everything else now potentially includes compromises, and I can't trust him as a good source of christian apologetics. While the first half of the book lays out a pathway that many of these Christians have taken through doubt, the second half of the book is a more positive exposition of the faith they are living out in the world. Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts—not only their own but their friends’ and neighbors’. 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. Several of her Christian friends at college spoke to her of their faith, but she was “rocky soil for the seeds” of their testimonies. Then I went off to one of those fine, liberal, smaller universities in the Northeast, which quickly began to throw water on the hellfire in my imagination. In the second year of the course, however, the instructor was a new, young cleric just out of seminary. Pastor and author Timothy Keller meets with a group of skeptics over six sessions to debate their doubts and questions about Christianity. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Read The Reason for God: Belief in an age of scepticism book reviews & author details and more at Amazon… There is a great gulf today between what is popularly known as liberalism and conservatism. I accepted God’s forgiveness and invited him into my life.” Kevin wrote, “While sitting in a coffee shop reading C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity, I put down the book and wrote in my notebook ‘the evidence surrounding the claims of Christianity is simply overwhelming.’ I realized that my achievements were ultimately unsatisfying, the approval of man is fleeting, that a carpe diem life lived solely for adventure is just a form of narcissism and idolatry. I want to make a proposal that I have seen bear much fruit in the lives of young New Yorkers over the years. It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. But when I asked him who that God was, he described him as an all-loving Spirit in the universe. She turned to church and sought an understanding of God’s mercy and an experience of his reality. Meanwhile, dozens of other similarly orthodox-believing congregations have sprung up in Manhattan and hundreds of others throughout the four other boroughs. He confuses scientists with science, and physical science with historical science. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. he assumes man to be correct over God. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2018. We start down the road to Hitler’s death camps and Stalin’s gulag, he warns, whenever we refuse to recognize in fellow humans the divine image of God. This required not so much knowledge of techniques for prayer, but a process in which I came to grips with my own needs, flaws, and problems. Also, a religion tells its followers that they are saved and connected to God by devotedly performing that truth. We have something else entirely. But as we become more scientifically sophisticated and more able to understand and control our own environment, our need for religion would diminish, it was thought.4. Liberals’ individualism comes out in their views of abortion, sex, and marriage. Using literature, philosophy, real-life conversations, and potent reasoning, Keller explains how the belief in a Christian God … There are three approaches that civic and cultural leaders around the world are using to address the divisiveness of religion. Nobody ever said “fuggedaboutit” out loud, but it always hung in the air. Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2018, [Update 14-May-2019 – added to the review]. He saw a way to get the courage to face the inevitable suffering of the future, and to know there would be a path through it. I speak from an unusual vantage point on this two-edged phenomenon. During my college years, these three barriers eroded and my faith became vital and life-affecting. What troubles you the most about its beliefs or how it is practiced?” One of the most frequent answers I have heard over the years can be summed up in one word: exclusivity. A case in point was the person of Jesus. If we stopped saying such things to ourselves it might make everyone more civil and generous toward opposing views. This is strongly recommended for all, even if you, like me, sometimes cow away from the world of Christian literature which is, unfortunately, saturated with trite and poorly written works which do more to undermine the faith than to promote it. Great stuff. Then I read this book. $14.95 a month after 30 days. And so I became a believer in Christ.”11. A nice book with compelling information and philosophical arguments, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2017. R.C.G. he assumes man to be correct over God. She saw a counselor at the church who helped her draw a connection between the mercy of God and her seemingly inexhaustible need for acceptance. About the Author. If Christians continue to insist that they have ‘the truth’—and if other religions do this as well—the world will never know peace.”1. There's a problem loading this menu right now. In another incident, Jesus meets a man who confesses that he is filled with doubts (Mark 9:24), who says to Jesus, “Help thou my unbelief”—help me with my doubts! The problem with this position is its inconsistency. ” – Marvin Olasky on The Reason for God … The time for making elegant dismissive gestures toward the other side is past. The great majority of people belonged to one of the historic, mainline Protestant churches or the Roman Catholic Church. In 1968, this was heady stuff. And to skeptics, atheists, and agnostics, he provides a challenging argument for pursuing the reason for God. Several of the students were quite disturbed by this. But it needs to be said that faith-journeys are never simply intellectual exercises. Today, however, the now-dubbed “old-line” Protestant churches of cultural, inherited faith are aging and losing members rapidly. The social activism was particularly attractive, and the critique of American bourgeoisie society was compelling, but its philosophical underpinnings were confusing to me. In it Rev Dr Keller from Manhattan skillfully addresses some of the major obstacles to Christian faith, then presents some reasons, both philosophical (‘clues’) and historical, for trusting in Christ. With great humility, Keller shows how rather than being a leap of blind faith the gospel answers some of life's deepest questions. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. And although Keller frankly acknowledges that inquisitors have justified atrocities as religious duties, he nonetheless traces the modern concept of human rights back to religious roots and exposes the fragility of such rights when shorn from those roots. There are more Presbyterians in Ghana than in the United States and Scotland combined. The tragic irony of the situation is brought out by Alister McGrath in his history of atheism: The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.3, Going hand in hand with such efforts was a widespread belief in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that religion would weaken and die out as the human race became more technologically advanced. In this apologia for Christian faith, Keller mines material from literary classics, philosophy, anthropology and a multitude of other disciplines to make an intellectually compelling case for God. The third barrier was a social one. Their pilgrimage toward faith was slow and painstaking. TIMOTHY KELLER was born and raised in Pennsylvania and … Most people who assert the equality of religions have in mind the major world faiths, not splinter sects. Because I was always looking for that third camp, I became interested in shaping and initiating new Christian communities. The first barrier was an intellectual one. Then there will be an understanding, sympathy, and respect for the other side that did not exist before. Which unfortunately means I couldn't trust anything the author says before or after. Today, Redeemer has nearly six thousand regular Sunday attendees and has helped to start more than three hundred new churches around the world. – Publishers Weekly on The Reason for God “World has briefly reviewed about 200 books over the past year. She became so obsessed with her physical image that she developed eating disorders and substance addictions. Then he began listening to the ends of the sermons and realizing they posed an intellectual challenge that he had not wanted to face. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. In response to this honest admission, Jesus blesses him and heals his son. The people most passionate about social justice were moral relativists, while the morally upright didn’t seem to care about the oppression going on all over the world. It holds a specific view of God, which is touted as superior and more enlightened than the beliefs of most major religions. When the Chinese Communists expelled Western missionaries after World War II, they thought they were killing off Christianity in China. Religion is not just a temporary thing that helped us adapt to our environment. My teacher for the first year was a retired minister. This item: Reason for God Pack, Includes One DVD and One Discussion Guide by Timothy Keller Paperback $27.49 Only 11 left in stock - order soon. It’s only in hindsight that I see how the three factors worked together. DURING my nearly two decades in New York City, I’ve had numerous opportunities to ask people, “What is your biggest problem with Christianity? Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? At first I thought this was going to be a struggle to read with how it started off. Because of the vitality of religious faith in the world, efforts to suppress or control it often serve only to make it stronger. The Reason for God: Belief in an age of scepticism Timothy Keller… I answered like a shot: religion.”6. ” – Marvin Olasky on The Reason for God However, it helped me and I found some of the arguments compelling. Religion, it was thought, would thin out from its more robust, supernaturalist forms or die out altogether. New York isn’t alone. What about evil and suffering? Please try again. I found the author to stumble mightily when I got to chapter 6, page 95, "Doesn't Evolution disprove the Bible?" At first I thought this was going to be a struggle to read with how it started off. That may be true or it may not be true, but, again, it is quite a leap of faith.10. However, in today's society and working in an engineering job with many friends who are anti-religion I am commonly coming across vitriol about people with faith and I have realised that I need some more proof for myself and some better answers if/when my kids ask me what my belief is based upon. When fundamental understandings of reality conflict, it is hard to find anything to which to appeal. This approach creates an environment in which it is considered unenlightened and outrageous to make exclusive religious claims, even in personal conversations. That achieves civility in a pluralistic society, which is no small thing. And, just as important for our current situation, such a process will lead you, even after you come to a position of strong faith, to respect and understand those who doubt. So much to read, digest and think about. Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics, and even ardent believers, have about religion. Something went wrong. We have neither the Western Christendom of the past nor the secular, religionless society that was predicted for the future. It further grounded my own heart in the strength of the arguments for the truths I believe, and I am deeply grateful for the increased confidence I feel in dialoguing with friends with other perspectives. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. Please try again. But the author had to set you up for the rest of the book. He was in no state of “spiritual need” when a friend began taking him to Redeemer. Many of my early contacts said that the few congregations that had maintained a following had done so by adapting traditional Christian teaching to the more pluralistic ethos of the city. Jeffrey was a New York City musician, raised in a conservative Jewish home. Also, Keller occasionally gets caught up in presenting philosophical arguments and has a slight tendency to speed up as he lists his points. “ Keller mines material from literary classics, philosophy, anthropology, and a multitude of other disciplines to make an intellectually compelling case for God. The End of Faith. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism … World’s Book of the Year is Tim Keller’s The Reason for God. He clearly believes evolution to be correct, and thus begins a convoluted section trying to rationalize the rather obvious nature of Genesis 1-2 into something it just isn't. Lewis for the modern age. Nothing like that is imminently possible. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Conservatives’ individualism comes out in their deep distrust of the public sector and in their understanding of poverty as simply a failure of personal responsibility. 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