Sublime

James K. A. Smith is fast becoming a major voice in the world of postmodern theology. One of his major strengths is his ability to show that theology matters inside and outside the world of scholarship.

Reason is a crucial and irreplaceable way to help us weigh competing beliefs. But it is impossible to claim that we should believe only what is proven and that therefore, since religion can’t be proven, we shouldn’t embrace it. All of us have things we believe—including things we would sacrifice and even die for—that cannot be proven. We believe

Rather than accept the evidentialists’ requirements by attempting to construct a traditional argument for Christianity, Plantinga challenged the entire notion of traditional proof as the primary basis for belief.