What's So Great about Christianity?

Dinesh D'Souza is following in the footsteps of Ravi Zacharias and C.S. Lewis. D'Souza answers the rising stars in the militant atheist camp with his unique but sharp & entertaining witt. His voice is certainly a breath of fresh air in the midst of the postmodern, leftist hurricane breaking on the shores of Evangelicalism.

While the postmoderns have done well to remind us that living the gospel is a necessary part to effective gospel witness, many seem to have forgotten that effective vocal presentation and defense is needed just as ever in our day and time. The likes of Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and most secular-progressive professors in state universities illustrate this clearly.

In this particular work D'Souza addresses objections not normally found in the apologetic material, namely reassessing the Spanish Inquisition and Galileo. He takes a theistic evolutionary perspective, emphasizing that evolution is not the problem ... Darwinian philosophy is. Conservative Christians might be put off by this, but stick with him. Even if you guys don't agree with him, he makes a great case for purpose and design in creation in general and even emphasizes points that young earth creationists have failed to address adequately (ie. the problem of the travel of light from the far reaches of the universe).

This work is also important for another important reason. D'Souza demonstrates that sound intellectual Christianity is not simply the property of White people, as he, like Zacharias, is Indian. Truly Christianity has gone global ... which is the call of Christ. Below gives you a flavor of this work:

"First, Christianity makes sense of who we are in the world. All of us need a framework in which to understand reality, and part of Christianity's appeal is that it is a worldview that makes things fit together. Science and reason are seamlessly integrated in a Christian framework, because modern science emerged from a Christian framework. Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith. While reason helps us to discover things about experience, faith helps us discover things that transcend experience. for limited, fallible humans like us, Christianity provides a comprehensive and believable account of who we are and why we are here" (p. 300).