The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism deals with objections to Christian belief in Part 1, "The Leap of Doubt". Skeptical authors cited include
J. L. Mackie,
Richard Dawkins,
Daniel Dennett,
Sam Harris, and
Christopher Hitchens. It invokes
critical rationality or
critical rationalism at "Intermission" as a method of stating arguments for God and belief in Part 2, "The Reasons for Faith". In the book, Keller draws from diverse sources, including the
Bible,
C. S. Lewis,
Francis Collins,
Alvin Plantinga,
Stephen Jay Gould,
Rodney Stark,
Anne Rice,
Annie Dillard,
Flannery O'Connor,
Jonathan Edwards,
Søren Kierkegaard, and
N. T. Wright. The book received awards from
World magazine and
Christianity Today and was #7 on
The New York Times Best Seller list for non-fiction in March 2008. ==Prequel==