Randal Rauser: Conversations With My Inner Atheist

My guest this week is Randal Rauser. Randal is, in his own words, “a systematic and analytic theologian of evangelical persuasion.” He is a professor of systematic theology, apologetics, and worldview at Taylor Seminary. Randal has written a number of books on apologetics and atheism. I first became aware of Randal’s work around 2017 when I read “Is The Atheist My Neighbor.” At least in the circles, I am a part of, Randal is considered to be a fair and honest apologist and is widely regarded for “steel-manning” atheist arguments before giving his arguments against them. This week we discuss his new book, “Conversations With My Inner Atheist.” In this book, Randal personifies his doubts as an interlocutor named Mia, My Inner Atheist, who presents the atheist, humanist and naturalistic arguments against his faith. Randal shows real vulnerability in several of these dialogues and often leaves the matter without a satisfactory conclusion by either party (believing Randal or non-believing, Mia). As you might imagine, I have some thoughts on these matters most of which I express in the Final Thoughts section of the podcast. We also discuss a recent back and forth between Randal and Ian Mills of the New Testament Review Podcast fame on the topic of methodological naturalism. Links Blog https://randalrauser.com/ Twitter https://twitter.com/RandalRauser YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/RDRauser Books Conversations With My Inner Atheist https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Inner-Atheist-Christian-Apologist-ebook/dp/B08G4ZWLY7/ Is The Atheist My Neighbor https://www.amazon.com/Atheist-Neighbor-Rethinking-Christian-Attitudes-ebook/dp/B0118FX8E0/ Interact My Critique of Apologetics https://gracefulatheist.wordpress.com/critique-of-apologetics/ Full Show Notes including links to the Randal and Ian methodological naturalism discussions https://gracefulatheist.wordpress.com/?p=5839 Attribution "Waves" track written and produced by Makaih Beats http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Makaih_Beats Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/