Kris's Reviews > Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion

For a person who says that we need to do apologetics, not just talk about it, Guinness sure spends a lot of time talking about apologetics. Or around apologetics, in a sense. This book was mostly Guinness just riffing on the idea of doing apologetics, as a concept. This is not an actual apologetics book.

That said, I'm still glad I read it. Guinness is perceptive, and makes helpful distinctions. For example, this concept about holding worldviews struck me:

There are therefore two poles in the believing mind and heart, which I call the "dilemma pole" and the "diversion pole." The dilemma pole expresses the logic of the fact that the more consistent people are to their own view of reality, the less they are to God's reality and the more likely they are to feel their dilemma. The diversion pole expresses the fact that the less consistent people are to their own view of reality, the closer they are to God's reality, so the more they must find a diversion. Neither pole is necessarily closer to God, because unbelief as unbelief will not bow to God either way, but the people at either pole are relating to God and to their own claims to truth in entirely different ways.