Confronting the Predicament of Belief
The Quest for God in Radical Uncertainty
- Apologetics
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2020
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Publisher's Description
Instead of suppressing doubts about religious claims, what if we engage them head-on? Imagine theologians who welcome the uncomfortable questions rather than immunizing their proposals from criticisms. What happens when discussions of the deepest issues--God and science, faith and doubt, suffering and evil, death and resurrection--are guided by the real-life challenges of believing and living in today's world? The probing queries and constructive replies published here for the first time invite you into the living experience of doubt and faith, the spiritual quest of our age. They invite readers to consider not only what they believe, but also how they hold their beliefs . . . and what they do with them in everyday life.
Endorsements (4)
“Confronting the Predicament of Belief is an engrossing discussion of the key issues raised by Clayton and Knapp in The Predicament of Belief. It includes eight essays by thoughtful and incisive critics of Predicament who assess Clayton and Knapp’s stand on the possibility that religious, and particularly Christian, beliefs are true.”
“Getting right to the nitty-gritty of theology, essayists probe and cajole Clayton and Knapp’s proposals in their original book, The Predicament of Belief. All contributors agree that Christians face contemporary predicaments. But not all are convinced of the Predicament’s solutions. The responses Clayton and Knapp give are themselves worth the price of this book!”
“These eight varied, rigorous, and valuable essays continue a conversation that is immensely important to anyone seriously interested in the idea of God and the credibility of religious belief. The essays will evoke further thoughtful conversation by way of disagreement as well as development—which is what the activity of theology is really all about.”
“Clayton and Knapp find a way to engage science, philosophy, the challenges to theism, and the richness of religious pluralism, while still writing theology without finger crossing. . . . The encounter is exciting and productive.”
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