The First Things website just posted Richard J. Mouw's "My Favorite Heretic," in which he recommends reading those hostile to our faith precisely because their false beliefs help illuminate the content of the faith. It's a lovely bit of writing, clearly the result of a life spent in reflection on sympathetic reading of every writer one reads.
"Some perspectives come close to the Christian vision precisely because they are, in another sense, so far away from it."
We can learn something about our God from every book, even from those who urge us to reject our Lord. In the end, there's no other reason to read.
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