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Nine leading writers — including Annie Dillard, Adam Gopnik, and Paul Kingsnorth — reflect on Christianity without dogma, with honesty, and with depth.
Author: Edited by Robert Klitgaard
Year: 2023
Publisher: Wipf & Stock
Topics: Christian Philosophy, Religion, Faith and Reason, Humanities, CultureAuthor: Robert Klitgaard
About This Book
What does Christianity look like when approached not through doctrine but through honest intellectual inquiry? What draws serious, skeptical minds toward faith — and what keeps them there?
An Introduction to Christianity for Young Intellectuals brings together nine chapters by some of the most compelling writers of our time: Annie Dillard, Adam Gopnik, Jack Miles, Paul Kingsnorth, and others. Each contributor reflects on Christianity from their own vantage point — with no party line, no easy answers, and no condescension toward doubt.
Edited by Robert Klitgaard, this anthology is for anyone who has wondered whether Christianity has something serious to offer an inquiring mind. Not a catechism. Not an argument. A series of deep, honest reflections from people who have wrestled with the question themselves.
Praise
“Christianity for Young Intellectuals: is the challenge, provocation, and practicality that you didn’t find in Sunday school classes or preacher sermons, and won’t find in Christianity as it’s presented by mass media.
An intellectual’s Christianity is not filled with comfortable certainties, but the complexities that fill every aspect of an intellectual’s life. These are exercises for a nuanced, adult engagement with one of history’s most influential belief systems.”
Michael Muthukrishna, London School of Economics and author of A Theory of Everyone
“Many young people feel there is an incompatibility between faith and reason, and so they must choose between the two. In Christianity for Young Intellectuals, Robert Klitgaard masterfully shreds this notion, showing that religion and the intellect not only can co-exist; they are incomplete without each other.”
Arthur C. Brooks, Harvard University and #1 New York Times bestselling author.
“The great Wordsworth wrote of Imagination as Reason “in her most exalted mood.” Robert Klitgaard’s judicious and sagacious collection and commentary of texts fires the imagination and challenges the intellect. There is much to reflect upon in these pages: perfect for an inquiring spirit of any age!”
Douglas Hedley, Professor of the Philosophy of Religion, University of Cambridge
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