The Reason for God
Cover to the Riverhead Trade edition
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| Author | Timothy J. Keller |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Christian apologetics |
| Publisher | Dutton |
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2008 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 293 pp (first edition) |
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The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism (2008) is a book and DVD on Christian apologetics by Timothy J. Keller, a scholar and founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City.
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism deals with objections to Christian belief in Part 1, "The Leap of Doubt". Skeptical authors cited include J.L. Mackie,Richard Dawkins,Daniel Dennett,Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. It invokes critical rationality or critical rationalism at "Intermission" as a method of stating arguments for God and belief in Part 2, "The Reasons for Faith".
In the book, Keller draws from diverse sources, including the Bible, C. S. Lewis, Francis Collins,Alvin Plantinga,Stephen Jay Gould,Rodney Stark,Anne Rice,Annie Dillard,Flannery O'Connor, Jonathan Edwards, Søren Kierkegaard, and N. T. Wright.
The book received awards from World magazine. and Christianity Today and was #7 on The New York Times Best Seller list for non-fiction in March 2008.
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