Enduring Divine Absence: The Challenge of Modern Atheism (Davenant Engagements)

Today, millions of people in the modern West identify as atheists. And even for believers, the intellectual and spiritual temptations to deny the existence of God seem greater than ever. Too often we respond to this pressure by seeking more and more rational proofs of God's existence, but what if a lack of reason to believe is not our main problem? In this volume, Joseph Minich argues that our real challenge is existential and imaginative—a felt absence of God that is more visceral in our modern world than for most generations past, and the sense that if God cannot be sensed, He cannot be there. Why are we so haunted and disoriented today by this sense of God's absence? And how can we learn to sustain and strengthen our faith in the face of it? In these pages, Minich charts a way back to a renewal of our hearts and imaginations that can enable us to embrace the challenge of finding and being found by the hidden God.

• The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog, 5th Edition
• Understanding World Religions: An Interdisciplinary Approach
• Philosophy and the Christian: The Quest for Wisdom in the Light of Christ
• Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
• God of Our Fathers: Classical Theism for the Contemporary Church
• Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality (Foundational Questions in Science)
• What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur'an
• The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
• Christianity Considered: A Guide for Skeptics and Seekers
• Nature's Case for God: A Brief Biblical Argument