The Grand Coherence: Home Page

Welcome to the home page for my book The Grand Coherence: A Modern Defense of Christianity, which seeks to defend the truth of Christianity from first principles, in a modern style and using the latest evidence, updating and unpacking the philosophy of C.S. Lewis. All the links will be posted here, starting with:

Amazon Kindle e-book (whole book, $0.99)

Barnes & Noble e-book, free

Scribd e-book, free for subscribers

All the chapters are available in audio format, here:

1. The Task of Apologetics 9:12
2. How to Decide What to Believe 18:39
3. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ 16:24
4. Agreement, Disagreement, and the Quest for a Coherent Worldview 26:28
5. The Feedback Loop Between Worldview and Evidence 29:09
6. The Grue Problem, the Reality of Ideas, and the Meaning of Knowledge 24:19
7. Physics and Christianity 31:00
8. Biology and Christianity 37:42
9. The Hollow Faith of Scientific Materialism 47:22
10. Genesis 40:09
11. The Golden Rule 36:10
12. Sociobiology, the Sexes, and Human Nature 34:07
13. The Case for Chastity 54:03
14. Pre-Christianity and the Commonsense Theology of Creation and Fall 31:18
15. The Ethics of Jesus 39:24
16. The Church in History 48:37
17. The Meaning of Redemption 27:26
18. The Promises of God 34:15
19. Why God Became Man 42:40
20. On Prayer 27:56
21. Eastern Orthodoxy 34:56
Total 11:31:16

Altogether, ~132,000 words, 11 1/2 hours of audio. I should warn that the argument has one important chart and quite a few somewhat important equations, so you won’t quite get the full experience from listening to the audio alone.

I welcome feedback, and for that purpose, I’m planning to post each of the chapters, one by one, on Substack, starting with:

Chapter 1 post & discussion forum.

Chapter 2 post & discussion forum.

Chapter 3 post & discussion forum.

Stay tuned!