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Wessel Stoker’s latest book takes its reader on a journey of seeking and discovering how Christian faith could be accounted for as reasonable in the age of pluralism, when experience seems to be the only remaining common currency. This review has been written as a part of resourcing the project ‘The Hermeneutics of Christian Tradition, in particular the Czech Protestant one, in the Cultural History of Europe’. In his Introduction Stoker explains the reasons for writing such a book as follows: the classical works of apologetics which focussed on the proofs of God’s existence and on the evidence of miracles no longer work. Yet while the Enlightenment critique has undermined such a discourse, Stoker argues that it has not done away with the possibility of demonstrating that to believe is reasonable, even rational. Against fideism and against reductionist rationalism, Stoker—referring to J.W. van Huyssteen ( The Shaping of Rationality )—defends rationality as “our responsibility to strive after clarity, intelligibility and optimal understanding as means for coping with the world and ourselves” (12). Recovering faith as reasonable/rational will help Christianity in learning how to share its position with other religious and agnostic voices when it is no longer a
Journal of Reformed Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2011
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