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Faith is...

What is faith? It seems to be a simple concept, one simply believes in something. However, a Biblical definition is rich and multifaceted. Clifford McManis offers a survey of some of the ideas involved in a definition of faith:

Apologetic Reads

Before I read Van Til I didn't read apologetics very much. I did quite a bit of apologetics, but found reading it dull and not very useful. I couldn't get through reams of logic or piles of evidence without the realization that the next time I met a teenager with questions I would have no chance of even remembering what I had read let alone maintaining the attention of my interlocutor. Being committed to a presuppositional method I now lap up contributions on the subject. Here are a few I have read recently: God Is by Doug Wilson is a read-in-an-hour-or-two rough-shod ride over the pages of Christopher Hitchen's God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. It is a rewarding hour or two not least because it restores one's faith in the ability of Christians to write good, stinging prose and make a good argument (very few contemporary Christian writers can do both). Wilson's central and reverberating critique of the Hitch is that while he sounds like...