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the world.
Christians can’t just tell one another that their faith makes sense. They’ve got to get that message over to their culture at large.
Farrer pointed out that demonstrating the reasonableness of faith was vital in securing its cultural acceptance. Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.[79]
“Try seeing things this way!” If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into sharpest focus?
Reading literature, Lewis suggests, enables us “to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as our own.”
