Dude, A.N. Wilson Is Back on the Believer Bus.

Read about it here from David Neff at Christianity Today.  A.N. Wilson, if you don't know, is an English academic who specialized in skeptical books about famous Christians, like C.S. Lewis.  I remember being haunted by the cover and title of his book God's Funeral when I came across it in a used bookstore.

I'm a little stunned. 

Can Christopher Hitchens be far behind?  :-)

Comments

[Janet C.]

" he compares the tremendous sense of relief he felt when he stopped believing to the experience of Christian converts at a Billy Graham Crusade"

This is interesting because it is very like what CSL said about his "conversion" to atheism. He was so worn out with trying to pray "properly" that it was a great relief to be able to stop.

AMDG, Janet

[Truth Unites... and Divides]

Thanks for this post Hunter Baker. I read Neff's post, the account of Wilson's double conversion, and Larsen's accounts of double conversions during the Victorian era.

I've been recently conversing with several apostates and resigned to thinking it's hopeless, but your article showed me that it's not. Sometimes the Prodigal comes home!!!

Although the following is not about a prodigal, it does give praiseworthy evidence that a staunch atheist can eventually become a follower of Jesus.

Christ is the Lord.

"December 22, 2008

Three years ago, I promoted and appeared in the atheist documentary “The God Who Wasn’t There,” dedicated to the proposition that Jesus never existed.

TODAY I DEDICATE THIS SITE AND MY LIFE TO THE WORSHIP AND SERVICE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST."

[P H Reardon]

Thank you, Hunter.

[Bill R]

It would be poetic justice if the writings of C.S. Lewis, the man Wilson "debunked," lead him back to the faith.