Quotes by Alister E. McGrath

“Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.”

“Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.”

“Science proceeds by inference, rather than by the deduction of mathematical proof. A series of observations is accumulated, forcing the deeper question: What must be true if we are to explain what ...”

“Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.”

“Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.”

“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.”

“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 ...”

“TO BE asked to minister without an informing vision of God (which is what theology is really all about), however, is like being told to make bricks without straw. What keeps people going in ministr...”

“To its critics, the study of theology distracts from real life. But, at its best, theology inspires and informs precisely the committed and caring ministry.”

“Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.”

“Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.”

“A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped.”