The Case for Christ author Lee Strobel is out with a new book making the case for miracles to an evangelical Christian audience, who is in many ways “embarrassed by the supernatural,” he says.
“And by [embarrassment] I mean they want to be respectable by their neighbors, they don’t want to be conflated with some televangelist, strange or over the top,” said Strobel in an interview earlier this month with The Christian Post about his new book The Case for Miracles: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for the Supernatural, which is set for release next Tuesday.
“In many evangelical circles there’s almost a skepticism toward the miraculous or a downplaying of the supernatural out of this sense of wanting to set themselves apart from the excesses we’ve seen in some circles,” he explained, noting he hopes the book proves helpful for both the spiritually curious and committed Christians who wonder if God continues to intervene in the world today.
As with his other “Case for” books, Strobel in his latest work interviews theologians, scholars, and experts from a variety of fields, including Roger Olson, a professor at Baylor University whose April 2015 essay, “Embarrassed by the Supernatural?” on Patheos, particularly resonated with him.
Olson wrote at the time that when he gives his Latin American, Asian, and African theology students absolute freedom to be totally transparent about what they think of American evangelical Christianity they often say that they are “shocked” by its…
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