Dr. Gregory Boyd's Letters From A Skeptic

During our time in the world, Christians often find themselves in close contact with skeptics- agnostics, atheists, or those people who simply don’t care about a spiritual life, who all have their own reasons to distrust the church and the Bible as a whole. The questions these people pose are not simple ones, not questions that can be answered by a simple “John 3:16” or a “Jeremiah 29:11.” How then should we, as a part of the body of Christ, react to and answer those people who desire more intellectual evidence than the common Christian idioms that are passed around in church? This question is given an answer in Dr. Gregory Boyd’s book, Letters From A Skeptic. Greg’s written dialectic with his father, Edward Boyd, serves several very important purposes, chief among them the idea that intellectually-based apologetics are important, and needed in some cases, to reach someone who doesn’t believe. Throughout the book, we see that Edward asked very tough questions- questions that Greg himself actually acknowledged as being rather challenging, and seemed to …show more content…
Having finished it, my support of the field has only increased, as I feel Greg has highlighted the practical ability of apologetics to reach out to people who otherwise would not even consider looking at the Christian faith. It is true that this book only considers the case for one person and that such apologetics may differ in approach from person to person, but the practical yet continually loving manner in which Boyd answers his father provides very good examples on how apologetics can work. Mature faith here seems to be both intellectual and spiritual in nature, and combined with a loving, respectful, and honest response, such discourse between skeptics in our own lives seem much more possible than before, so long as we choose to do our best to represent God like