The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists

Ravi Zacharias

Sep 2008 · Zondervan

About this ebook

When you pray, are you talking to a God who exists? Or is God nothing more than your "imaginary friend," like a playmate contrived by a lonely and imaginative child?

When author Sam Harris attacked Christianity in Letter to a Christian Nation, reviewers called the book "marvelous" and a generation of readers--hundreds of thousands of them--were drawn to his message. Deeply troubled, Dr. Ravi Zacharias knew that he had to respond.

In The End of Reason, Zacharias underscores the dependability of the Bible along with his belief in the power and goodness of God. He confidently refutes Harris's claims that God is nothing more than a figment of one's imagination and that Christians regularly practice intolerance and hatred around the globe.

If you found Sam Harris's Letter to a Christian Nation compelling, the book you are holding is exactly what you need. Dr. Zacharias exposes "the utter bankruptcy of this worldview." And if you haven't read Harris's book, Ravi's response remains a powerful, passionate, irrefutably sound set of arguments for Christian thought. The clarity and hope in these pages reach out to readers who know and follow God as well as to those who reject God.

Ratings and reviews

As always, Ravi brings a wealth of knowledge and Godly wisdom. Difficult subjects are broken down into digestible laymen's terms. This is one of the few times Ravi responds specifically to writers in philosophy, most notably to Sam Harris and his atheistic and hollow worldview. And he does so with only the class and diligence Ravi can bring.

Well written, easy to read, from start to finish. As an atheist, critical thinker, and constantly employing reason in my life I can't say this book offered any views that I haven't studied. Faith will always be what it is... believing in something on insufficient evidence, thus not for me.

If there are logical fallacies in this book, i challenge any one to point them out.

About the author

RAVI ZACHARIAS spent forty-eight years commending the Christian faith and addressing life’s great existential questions of origin, meaning, morality, and destiny with eloquence and grace. As a world-renowned apologist and evangelist, his ultimate mission was to present the truth of Jesus Christ that others might find life in Him.He authored and coauthored thirty books and studies, including the award-winning Can Man Live Without God? and The Logic of God. He was founder and chairman of the board of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and host of two radio programs, Let My People Think and Just Thinking. He and his wife, Margie, were married forty-eight years.