Charles Murray’s new book, “Taking Religion Seriously,” in which he elaborates his reasons for trading atheism for a heterodox form of Christian faith, is a bit of a curious reading experience for me. This year I published a book arguing that it should be possible to reason one’s way from skepticism to belief and trying to unspool some threads of argument that the doubter might follow across the threshold of religious faith.
What I proposed, Murray’s book explicitly embodies. It’s an intellectual memoir in which the author, over many years of reading and arguing, thinks his way into religion, and it follows many of the same signposts that I recommended as guides for the traveler — from scientific discoveries to supernatural evidence to New Testament interpretations.
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