A new book joins a growing corpus on enchantment.
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If the early aughts were the heyday of New Atheism, the 2020s so far have been decisively a time of reenchantment and new works of apologetics for religious belief. From Ross Douthat’s exhortation for all to Believe, to Rod Dreher’s encouragement for us to live in wonder and recover a delight in mystery, to Christopher Beha’s decades-long intellectual pursuit of faith through philosophy and Charles Murray’s no-less-intellectual arrival at theism after decades of atheism, the New Enchantment (if we may call it that) is profoundly respectable and intellectual, grounded in analysis of real evidence by people who are highly regarded as rational leaders in their academic or professional spheres.
Nadya Williams is a Senior Fellow in the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, where she also serves as the interim director of the MFA program. She is books editor at Mere Orthodoxy, where she hosts the Christians Reading Classics podcast. Her latest book is Christians Reading Classics.
