By Wim Rietkerk
Solway. 170 pages, £6.99
ISBN 1 900507 36 6
Dr. Wim Rietkerk, a pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church, helps to lead the Dutch branch of the L'Abri Fellowship. His book is an apologetics book with a difference.
Its underlying thesis is that although it was intellectual presuppositions and problems which needed to be primarily dealt with in bringing people to Christ or helping people with their faith in the 1950s, things have moved on since then. Now hindrances to faith have much more to do with emotions and what we might call subconscious feelings.
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