One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.

The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.

The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.

For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.