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In recent years the Christian faith has been challenged by skeptics, including the New Atheists, who claim that belief in God is simply not reasonable. Here prominent Christian philosopher C. Stephen Evans offers a fresh, contemporary, and nuanced response. He makes the case for belief in a personal God through an exploration of natural "signs," which open our minds to theistic possibilities and foster belief in the Christian revelation. Evans then discusses why God's self-revelation is both authoritative and authentic. This sophisticated yet accessible book provides a clear account of the evidence for Christian faith, concluding that it still makes sense to believe.
- Sales Rank: #757564 in Books
- Brand: Baker Pub Group/Baker Books
- Published on: 2015-05-19
- Released on: 2015-05-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .40" w x 5.50" l, .44 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
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Why Christian Faith Still Makes Sense is part of the Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology series. Series editors are Craig A. Evans and Lee Martin McDonald.
"Decades of first-rate philosophical scholarship and deep Christian reflection on the faith are here pressed with astonishing delicacy into an elixir of apologetics. Evans brilliantly summarizes a wide range of arguments on behalf of the rationality of the Christian religion, but he also offers a trio of arguments from miracles, 'paradoxicality,' and existential power that sings a much fresher and more vital song than the grim, thin plaint of the New Atheists. Highly recommended for classrooms, small groups, personal consideration, and friendly discussion with your favorite atheist."
--John G. Stackhouse Jr., Regent College, Vancouver
"Written by a seasoned Christian philosopher, this book is a marvelous overview of the reasonableness of biblical faith in a skeptical age. Evans's work is fresh and engaging, and the case for Christianity is further illuminated by his inclusion of Kierkegaard's reflections on reason, paradox, and belief. A delight to read!"
--Paul Copan, Palm Beach Atlantic University
"Lucid and accessible, this would be a great book to give to students and laypeople who wish to understand how reason supports Christian faith in the light of modern challenges."
--George M. Marsden, University of Notre Dame
"Evans is one of the foremost philosophers of religion in the world today. In this book, a synthesis of some of his more detailed earlier work, he has given us a well-ordered analysis of the New Atheism and, what is far more important, expositions of the best historic and contemporary philosophical and theological responses. Any intelligent layperson can read this book with pleasure as well as profit, and it would make a great text for general-level courses as well."
--David Lyle Jeffrey, Baylor University
"The so-called New Atheists have set the context for much contemporary disbelief in any god at all. Evans knows this but digs much deeper into much more problematic objections. His profound response is orderly, clear, and persuasive."
--James W. Sire, author of The Universe Next Door and Apologetics beyond Reason: Why Seeing Really Is Believing
About the Author
C. Stephen Evans (PhD, Yale University) is University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and a Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. He is the author or editor of more than two dozen books and is a widely traveled speaker.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Clear, Concise, Compelling
By Paul D. Adams
Why Christian Faith Still Makes Sense: A Response to Contemporary Challenges by C. Stephen Evans ably and plainly responds to many of the common myths and misunderstandings around the Christian faith. Whether questioning, doubting, or explicitly denying the basic tenets of Christianity, Evans's newest would be an excellent read to offer in response to honest inquiry. There is nothing here that is overly academic, though all levels of readership will appreciate the thoughtful tone and cautious style in which the case for Christianity is presented.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks surrounding Christianity is whether evolutionary biology comports with faith. The block that stumbles trips up both believer and nonbeliever alike. Many nonbelievers argue that the supposed design or intended intelligence of the natural order is merely an appearance or projection of order. One need not postulate a Designer as necessary, since the "the apparent design in nature is only apparent" (p 45). The universe and everything therein is simply a brute fact. Searching for purpose and meaning outside the raw data is beyond the scope of what can be known. Thus, an Intelligent Agent is, at best, a vain and woeful attempt at wish-fulfillment.
Many believers insist that belief in evolutionary biology necessarily nullifies belief in God. The two are mutually exclusive. The logic goes something like this: "A process that depends on random mutations cannot be guided, and so God cannot have used an evolutionary means to achieve his ends" (p 46). Whereas nonbelievers trip over faith in an Intelligent Designer, believers trip over the evolutionary process. But, Evans shows there is a trail that responsibly winds through the concerns and removes the blocks that stumble.
The key to charting a clear path is twofold. One a common sense approach; the other involves the term "random." First, Evans notes there is nothing in evolutionary theory that requires one to see purpose, design, order, or intelligence in the natural world as illusory. After all, "the evolutionary process itself is one that depends on the laws of nature" (e.g., laws of physics and chemistry). Thus, and ironically perspicuous, "evolution actually shows that the order we experience on the surface of things, so to speak, depends on a still deeper, hidden order" (p 45). While logic (and probability theory) indicates that the known constants and variables in the universe could have been otherwise, the fact that they align in such a way as to give rise to this universe with these conditions does make belief in a "finely-tuned" universe reasonable and the purpose and order we observe in biology is not merely illusory. Simply because "someone has to win the lottery" and it's logically possible that no Intelligent Agent is behind the supposed order we find, is hardly sufficient reason to be a full-on atheist. Moreover, and to Evans's point, to insist upon the evolutionary process is to embrace a larger order in the environmental conditions that make evolution possible.
Second, when the term "random" is used in the context of evolutionary biology, a precise meaning is intended. When believers hear the term "random" in the context of evolutionary biology, they often understand it to mean something like anything-whatsoever-and-always-unpredictable-can-happen. All that exists is just a matter of chance. But Evans shows that "when scientists claim that genetic mutations are random, they do not mean that they are uncaused, or even that they are unpredictable from the point of view of biochemistry, but only that the mutations do not happen in response to the adaptational needs of the organism ... The sense of "randomness" required for evolutionary theory does not imply that the evolutionary process is outside God's control" (p 46).
"Random" in this sense means there is no known correlation between organisms' adaptation and their mutation. In fact there is no biological mechanism for determining whether a mutation is beneficial unto survival or detrimental unto extinction; in that sense mutation is "random." This lack of understanding, however, does not mean that the evolutionary process is unguided. (Incidentally, Evans's argument is found also in Alvin Plantinga's penetrating and robust Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, & Naturalism, pp 11ff).
And so, the block over which some Christians stumble is removed when equivocation is avoided and "random" is understood in the precise sense in which it is intended. Nonbelievers can avoid their myopic stumbling block of insisting there is no order or design in biology, since the mechanisms that require evolutionary theory to work require and depend upon the consistent, orderly operation of larger systems in which organisms thrive.
There is much more to glean here and it would make a great book for discussion or for personal growth and insight. This book offers compelling proposals and challenges every reader regardless of beliefs. Highly recommended!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A must read for all those wanting to share their faith in todays culture
By William D. Curnutt
I appreciated this book by C. Stephen Evans, a Professor from Baylor University. As a Philosopher I at first was apprehensive to read his book. I have not appreciated the work of Philosophers in the past and have often found their work hard to digest and understand, they tend to be a bit lofty and wordy.
But C. Stephen Evans does a great job of writing in words that every layman will understand and be able to digest. He makes very good logical conclusions based on the evidence that he has studied and gathered together for his work.
His main task in writing this book is to talk about “The New Atheism,” as it is being developed in our culture today. Here are the main tenants of his book in his own words;
“I take it that the major complaint (though not the only one) of the New Atheists about religion is that faith is intellectually baseless. In this book I try to give a clear case that belief in Christian faith still makes sense and thus answer that criticism.” He further states, “So the book answers a major charge of the New Atheists make not by responding to their specific complaints but by showing how a thoughtful Christian might ‘give a reason for the hope’ that faith embodies.”
I believe that he develops his topic well, he addresses many things that we as Christians are facing in our world today and helps develop answers that we can use in talking with friends who doubt Christianity. I took a long time to work through the book, not because it was difficult, but because I was outlining each chapter and framing my own conclusions and arguments (arguments in the good sense) that I could use with those who are living in this modern world of the New Atheism.
I recommend this book to Pastors and lay people alike. I believe that it will become a major book to help us work through how to talk and build relationships with those who are out in the culture today stating that Christianity is archaic and thus dying.
This book makes me almost want to go back to school and study Philosophy, but alas I am a bit to old for that, but not to old to learn something new from a great writer such as C. Stephen Evans.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent popular introduction to natural theology!
By eric oldenburg
In this very readable and engaging text, Evans gives a brief introduction to the main criticisms of the New Atheists against religion, in general, and Christianity, in particular. After painting a broad picture, he then moves through a number of the classic natural theology arguments for the existence of a God or gods, showing that there is evidence for theistic claims. Evans is very careful to state that the cosmological, teleological and moral arguments do not clearly reveal the Christian God, but that is no problem because doing so is not their task. Rather, these classical arguments are simply propositional formulations of what Evans calls "natural signs" that point to transcendence. From this acknowledgment of the transcendent, Evans gives concrete criteria for evaluating any proposed revelations from a God or gods. In this section the reader finds Evans' most novel proposal, i.e., his presentation of Kierkegaard's paradox argument. Given our pride and our selfishness, surely characteristics that would hinder our ability to comprehend the revelation of a Perfect Being, any such revelation should strike us as paradoxical, which is just what the Christian teaching of God's incarnation in Jesus does. Yet upon further reflection and an openness to God as revealed in Jesus, we see that the incarnation is not at all absurd, rather, it is exactly what we humans need. Evans presents several other basic defenses of, for instance, miracles and historical reliability, to support the Christian Scriptures as the true revelation from God. The main weakness of this book is that it ends rather abruptly, seemingly mid-thought and thus without either a full resolution to the book's central idea or an invitation to the reader to consider Christian faith more seriously.
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