So, my rather haphazard journey through the world of Christian apologetics has brought me to William Lane Craig. The much-traveled Craig is perhaps the most prominent conservative evangelical apologist in the English-speaking world, holding debates with militant atheists in all sorts of places in between his day job as Research Professor of Philosophy at the Talbot School of Theology in Southern California. He was even part of a widely advertised debate here in Brisbane City Hall with prominent atheist scientist Lawrence Krauss. I couldn't get to the debate but friends who did told me I didn't miss much. Craig is a prolific author and speaker, with over 30 books in print as well as numerous articles, scholarly and popular, and DVD's of his lectures and debates. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics is his attempt to bring all this together in a package. It started life as material for his seminary courses in apologetics and was originally written as a
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson