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| Title: Persuasions: A Dream of Reason Meeting Unbelief |
| Author: Wilson, Douglas |
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Format: Paperback: 95 pages |
| Publisher: Canon Press; 1 edition (October 1, 1997) |
| ISBN: 1885767293 |
| Review Date: Febuary 5th, 2008 |
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| Book Description: They all walk toward the Abyss for
different reasons, each of them with varying persuasions. Along the
way they meet Evangelist, and as a result they face the Great
Persuasion. Some of their conversations are recorded in this book. |
Review:
This book contains small snippets of evangelistic conversations with people from different backgrounds. Set in the form of a dream, Evangelist walks a road that slopes up towards the City. He tries to stop the people who are walking down the road towards the Abyss. Each person has a different reason for walking down the road. One man lusts for women, on woman is a feminist, another man is a heretic who is convinced that the downward trail is the true path.
Evangelist challenges each one to think about their actions. With the feminist he asks her if the abuse of women is a good thing or a bad thing. She answers that it is a bad thing. He then asks her if there is absolute truth. She answers in the negative. He says that he believes in absolute truth and that he believes that the abuse of women is a bad thing, and this line of reasoning allows him to say that the abuse of women is wrong in every family, at every time, in every culture. He then points out that with her thinking, the abuse of women is just a personal preference of hers.
Each chapter follows a similar pattern, reason meeting unbelief. Wilson operates on the assumption that most peoples objection to Christianity is irrational or emotional, (in my experience he is probably correct in this assumption). From there, he shows the reader that engaging in meaningful spiritual conversation can be as simple as pointing out the inconsistencies of a worldview. This books is short, simple, and has a lot of practical value. If you are the type of person who has a lot of apologetics knowledge, but has troubling using it, this book gives some straightforward examples.
