Bill, the Wall Street Journal says,

quoting a succession of well-known authors and intellectuals,

formerly cold to religion, are returning or returning to Christianity."

The editors of Free Press write, is the West experiencing a religious revival?

Some say yes, or at least that it needs one, but how can religion compel the secular? Political scientist Charles Murray knows the answer

better than most because it happened to him. For much of his life, he explains in his new book

Taking Religion Seriously, he was one of the well-educated and successful people for whom religion has been irrelevant.

Let's end of the quote there.

Bill, we've followed these instances of people like I and Herssey Alley, Larry Singer,

the founder of Wikipedia, Tom Holland, a host of others who are embracing the Christian faith in varying degrees after years of

rejecting it. And now Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve, has made significant steps

toward Christian theism. And Bill, I'd like to apply this trend and Murray's testimony that we're going to look at

to your systematic philosophical theology. Many intellectuals who are embracing or returning to

the Christian faith will be drawn to this work. What do you hope it will accomplish for highly educated people like we're talking about?

My systematic philosophical theology is designed to survey the whole body of Christian doctrine

from the doctrine of scripture and doctrine of faith up through creation, Christ,

salvation, the church, and the last things, and to examine the philosophical issues

that arise in the course of exploring these Christian doctrines. So I hope it will both

inform people about Christian doctrine, as well as provide good reasons for believing these doctrines

and their coherence.

And, of course, much of that applies to the layman as well.

But what, if anything, did you have in mind for the layperson when writing these volumes?

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