One of the best known interpreters of the Christian faith in our time here provides help for the man who finds it more difficult to believe every day, but who nonetheless “hungers and thirsts” for a meaningful faith. The person who honestly faces the inequities of life but still cannot let go of the question of God needs to touch base more often with the reasons for believing. Helmut Thielicke finds these reasons in Christ’s own words.
In fifteen chapters originally presented as a sermon series at the Great St. Michael’s Church in Hamburg, Germany, Thielicke openly confronts the questions that disturb the modern conscience: “How can we be freed from our skepticism?” “What has God to do with the meaning of life?” “How are we to reconcile God and politics?” “What meaning is there to innocent suffering?” He answers by probing the modern implications of particular Scriptural passages in which Jesus once spoke to the people of his time.
In an easy, conversational style, Thielicke brings the reader back to essentials, steadies him in Scripture, and frees him from the distractions that cloud his faith. Laymen as well as ministers learn how faith affords meaning in living, freedom in action, and security in the face of adversity. In believing once again, they can go on to love and hope again too. Believers and would-be believers will find pleasure as well as strength in what is perhaps the best of Thielicke’s many brilliant sermon collections.