Notes
Notes
CHAPTER 1: WHO IS JESUS?
1 C. S. Lewis, "Is Theology Poetry?" in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949; repr., New York: HarperCollins,
2001), 140.
2 Thomas Merton, The Living Bread (New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1965), xiii.
3 James Stewart, The Strong Name (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1972), 72 – 73.
4 Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions (New York: Basic Books, 2002), 12.
5 I heartily recommend William Barclay's book Jesus as They Saw Him (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984).
6 Douglas Coupland, Life after God (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 359.
7 B. Ramalinga Raju, "It Was Like Riding a Tiger," Outlook
India.com, January 7, 2009, http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?239402
(November 10, 2009).
CHAPTER 2: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CHRISTIAN?
1 Antony Flew, There Is a God: How the World's Most Noted Atheist Changed His Mind (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 77.
2 Reid S. Monaghan, review of The Science of the Soul:
Scientific Evidence of Human Souls, by Kevin T. Favero, March 13, 2006, http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2006/3/13/book-reviewthe-science-of-the-soul.html (November 23, 2009).
3 C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (1940; repr., New York:
HarperCollins, 2001), 91.
4 Reid S. Monaghan, "Thoughts on Plurality," February 13, 2009, http://www.powerof change.org/blog/2009/2/13/thoughts-on-plurality.html
(November 23, 2009).
5 David Berlinski, The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions (New York: Crown Forum, 2008), 9.
6 Ibid., 178-79.
7 Peter Kreeft, Making Sense out of Suffering (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Servant, 1986), 51.
8 Gabriel Marcel, The Philosophy of Existentialism (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel, 1956), 19.
9 Reinhold Niebuhr, Nature and Destiny of Man (Louisville:
Westminster, 1996), 94.
10 Berlinski, Devil's Delusion, 179.
CHAPTER 3: POINTS OF TENSION
1 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West (New York:
Macmillan, 1985), 110.
2 William Blake, "The Tiger," in Masterpieces of Religious Verse, ed. James Dalton Morrison (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1977),
25.
3 Tessa Cunningham, "How Do You Cope When Your Husband Tells You He Wants to Die?" The Daily Mail, May
11, 2009, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1180210/
How-DO-cope-husband-tells-wants-die.html (November 23, 2009).
4 C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 86.
5 George MacDonald, Life Essential: The Hope of the Gospel (Wheaton, Ill.: Shaw, 1978), 24.
6 "Redemption for the Pope?" Lancet 373 (March 28, 2009):
1054.
7 G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1902), 19.
8 G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1994), 37.
9 Francis Thompson, "The Hound of Heaven," in Masterpieces of Religious Verse, 60-61.
10 Saint Augustine, The Confessions of Saint Augustine, trans.
John K. Ryan (New York: Doubleday, 1960), 43.
11 Widely attributed to C. S. Lewis but the primary source is unknown.
CHAPTER 4: LOOKING INCOHERENCE IN THE EYE
1 A. N. Wilson, "Religion of hatred: Why we should no longer be cowed by the chattering classes ruling Britain who sneer at Christianity," The Daily Mail, April 11, 2009, http:// www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169145/Religion-hatredWhy-longer-cowed-secular -zealots.html (November 23, 2009).
2 Matthew Parris, "As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God," The Times, December 27, 2008, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew article5400568.ece (November 23, 2009).
3 Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1957), 24.
CHAPTER 5: PURPOSE DRIVEN OR REASON DRIVEN?
1 Winston Churchill, quoted in The Sayings of Winston Churchill, ed. J. A. Sutcliffe (London: Duckworth, 1992), 42.
2 Robert M. Price, The Reason-Driven Life: What Am I Here on Earth For? (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2006), 18.
3 Ibid., 13.
4 Ibid., 8.
5 Ibid., 29, 45.
6 Ibid., 18.
7 Winston Churchill, in a live broadcast from London, August 24, 1941; quoted in Sir Winston Churchill and Martin Gilbert,
The Churchill War Papers (New York: Norton, 2001), 3:1102.
8 Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (New York: Free Press, 1970), 12.
9 Cited in Philip Novak, The Vision of Nietzsche (London:
Element, 1996), 11.
10 Price, Reason-Driven Life, 19 – 20.
11 Ibid.
12 Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good (London: Routledge,
1990), 78.
13 Price, Reason-Driven Life, 40.
14 Ibid., 36-37.
15 C. S. Lewis, Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984), 228-29.
16 C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (New York: Collier, 1953), 16-17.
17 G. K. Chesterton, "The Convert," in The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton (London: Methuen, 1933), 387.
CHAPTER 6: DOES PRAYER MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE?
1 G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1995), 87.
2 Frances Brown, "The Greatest Loss," in Masterpieces of Religious Verse, ed. James Dalton Morrison (Grand Rapids:
Baker, 1977), 388.
3 C. S. Lewis, Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984), 228.
4 Cited in Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, C. S. Lewis, Mere Christian (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1981), 118.
5 Saint Chrysostom, "On Prayer," in Methodist Magazine for January, 1819 (New York: J. Soule and T. Mason, 1819), 115.
6 Robert Browning, Christmas Eve (1850; repr., Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, 2004), 37.
7 Calvin Miller, Spirit, Word, and Story (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005), 56 – 57.
8 Paul Waitman Hoon, The Integrity of Worship (Nashville:
Abingdon, 1971), 164.
9 C. S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (New York: Harcourt, 1992), 67-68.
10 See Philip Yancey, Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006), 222-26.
11 Fanny J. Crosby, "All the Way My Savior Leads Me," in
Hymns for the Family of God (Nashville: Paragon Associates, 1976), 598.
12 Rhea Miller (lyrics) and George Beverly Shea (tune), "I'd Rather Have Jesus," 1922.
13 Michel Quoist, Prayers (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), 135 – 37. Used by permission of Sheed & Ward, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Michel Quoist,
"Sin," translated from the French Prières (Les Éditions de l'Atelier, 2003), 144. Used by permission of Les Éditions de l'Atelier, Paris, France.
CHAPTER 7: WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES CHRISTIANITY
MAKE?
1 William Blake, "Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau," in The Selected Poems of William Blake (Hertfordshire:
Wordsworth Editions, 1994), 108.
2 William Wordsworth, "London, 1802," in William Wordsworth: The Major Works, ed. Stephen Gill (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2000), 286.
3 Thornton Wilder, "The Angel That Troubled the Waters," in The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, ed. A. Tappan
Wilder (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1998), 74.
4 Quoted in Os Guinness and John Seel, No God But God (Chicago: Moody, 1992), 60.
5 Arthur Peacocke, "New Wineskins for Old Wine: A Credible Theology for a Scientific World," Science & Spirit 10 (1999):
32.
6 Ernest Becker, Escape from Evil (New York: Free Press, 1975), 164.
7 Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America (New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), 300.
8 John Newton, "Amazing Grace! How Sweet the Sound," in Psalter Hymnal (Grand Rapids: Board of Publications of the Christian Reformed Church, 1976), 444.
9 William Cowper, "God Moves in a Mysterious Way," in Psalter Hymnal (Grand Rapids: Board of Publications of the Christian Reformed Church, 1976), 536.