Alister E. McGrath
A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped.
— Alister E. McGrath
Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility.
— Alister E. McGrath
Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.
— Alister E. McGrath
For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.
— Alister E. McGrath
Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.
— Alister E. McGrath
Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.
— Alister E. McGrath
Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination.
— Alister E. McGrath
Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.
— Alister E. McGrath
Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life's great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience.
— Alister E. McGrath
Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.
— Alister E. McGrath
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