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 PrintableVersion The case for faith (visual edition)Apologetics for a visual societyTHE CASE FOR FAITH (visual edition) How do you convey reasons for Christian faith to people brought up on soundbites? How do you build gospel bridges to a generation addicted to images? This little book may have the answer. A powerful compilation of images overlaid with snippets of text, appealling to both sides of the brain, The Case for Faith is unusual and intriguing. The pace is fast and the ground covered is broad — creation, suffering, other religions, doubt, free will, the evidence for Jesus. The material is not neatly organised, but scattered haphazardly throughout the book. — irritating for some, perhaps, but a home from home for those reared on TV advertising with its rapid change of subject. The images move unexpectedly from the banal to the tragic, the everyday to the heart-wrenching. A picture of an escalator or an i-Tunes search-page one moment; the next a distraught Sri Lankan father carrying the dead body of his son, or the skeletal figure of a ten-year-old Sudanese girl lying in the sand dying of starvation. The accompanying text may be nothing more than a one-line question or a verse, an excerpt from an interview or a paragraph of comment. You will find quotations from the Bible and Bono, from C.S. Lewis and Stephen King, from The Matrix and Alice in Wonderland. The message of the book is that God is not far away, there is good evidence for faith, and if you seek him you will find him. What the book doesn’t do is to convey anything of the gospel message. Given this high quality artistic production communicates so effectively, it seems a missed opportunity, even if it does lie beyond its primary purpose. That said, I wouldn’t hesitate to give it to a non-Christian friend. Indeed I’ve done so and they were impressed. Marcus Nodder, © Evangelicals Now - May 2006 |
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