What I appreciate most about the book is its popular but deeply sympathetic tone to the challenge of faith. It offers no ultimate answer, though does provide a reasonable outline for why belief in God might be consistent with the problem of evil. However, discussions like this often seem to intellectualize the very problem which is not - really - fundamentally intellectual. Stackhouse does not. He lets the reader continue to feel the heft of the existential problem of faith, and further to agree that faith is hard - it is no naturally easy thing to fall into, or to fix ourselves up with. And it is not, of course, something we can stir up in our own hearts with sufficient study and reflection.
Such faith, Stackhouse rightly notes, is moved and made within us by the Spirit of God, echoing my own oft repeated evening prayer: I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!
When it comes to the deep pain and problems of the age we are in, I can think of no other prayer by which to come to faith.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Can God be Trusted?
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A link to an article you might like
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_1_the-west.html it's about the importance of meaning to be able to establish a civil society
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