Because I gotta have faith.

Gotta have faith.

I gotta have faith.

Because I gotta have faith.

I gotta reasonable faith.

You know, those two words say it all.

The title alone is provocative.

I found that it angers some atheists because they think they're the only ones who are known for using reason, that's their domain,

and to serve some believers because they have a faulty definition of faith.

At any rate, do you think the book is probably your flagship work?

Yes, I think that reasonable faith has become my signature piece and I smile because that was not the title that I originally

picked for the book. The first edition of the book was called Apologetics and Introduction.

It was my lectures in Apologetics at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School when I began to teach there in 1980.

But when Moody let the book go out of print, Crossway Press picked it up and did a second edition.

And I wanted to call it faith on the offensive

because I conceived of apologetics as being either offensive where you present positive arguments

for Christian faith or defensive where you answer objections.

And the book was intended to be an exercise in offensive apologetics.

So I thought I call it faith on the offensive. And the editors at Crossway didn't like it.

They said, let's call it reasonable faith.

And I thought that title was about as exciting as cold oatmeal.

I didn't like it at all, but I agreed to let it be entitled that and as it turned

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