True Reason – Confronting the Irrationality of the New Atheism - Softcover

"The essays in this volume show why the atheists' ideas are not at all reasonable, whereas Christian beliefs do indeed deserve this description. If the press clippings of the New Atheists bother you, you may acquire some ammunition in the pages of this text."-- (11/01/2014)

"With a clear message and respectful tone, this book challenges and convincingly refutes the claim of the New Atheists to own reason."-- (11/01/2013)

"This book explains the clear difference between the weak thinking represented by the atheists at the Reason Rally, and the strong reasoning accessible through biblically informed thinking."-- (11/01/2013)

"A compendium of fresh scholarship from contributors who are on the front line of apologetics today."-- (11/01/2013)

"For my whole Christian life I've been saying, 'My heart cannot rejoice in what my mind rejects.' Today's New Atheists seem to be saying something like that: that we should only believe what's within the bounds of evidence and sound reason. For them, that means we should choose atheism, but in reality nothing could be further from the truth. True Reason explains clearly and deeply how New Atheists have both missed and misunderstood the evidence that exists, and why Christianity is by far the better choice for the thinking mind and worshiping heart."-- (01/01/2014)

"The New Atheists claim the high road of reason, yet for all their bluster about rationality, careful, balanced, logically valid thinking has not been their strong suit. True Reason, by contrast, genuinely lives up to its title, and so much more. It takes on the stoutest challenges from the most notable voices on the other side and systematically dismantles them, yet with a grace, respect, and even-handedness rarely seen from their intellectual opposition."-- (01/01/2014)

"Another important work in the growing list of books rebutting the New Atheism, True Reason is a refreshing, crisply argued critique of this movement's frequently ill-informed and ungrounded assertions about science, faith, and reason."-- (01/01/2014)

With clarity of thought and precise logic, more than a dozen contemporary Christian apologists have come together to unmask the self-aggrandizing claims of the New Atheists, including Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. In sixteen, carefully constructed essays, these Christian thinkers demonstrate that "reason is the New Atheists' weakness, not their strength." They show that "Christianity is on the whole much more reasonable than atheism," and that "Christian faith as a whole supports sound reason, and Christians have applied it well." With coherence and competence these writers address the fallacies of "the party of Reason," and offer an introduction to the true reason of Christianity by making their case equally accessible to both the casual enquirer and the serious student.