Redeeming Expertise

My father was an English teacher and my mother a musician. I learned by the time I was a grade schooler to ask my dad questions about grammar and my mother about music. It not only worked, but it was wise. There are, however, people today--call them populists--who choose their own authorities and too often resort to thinking they can reason adequately for themselves on all matters. Eschewing expertise is the game of fools and it has become a commonplace among too many evangelicals.  Redeeming Expertise patiently listens to such eschewments and to irrationalities and to conspiratorialists, challenges them with robust arguments, and then calls us to a wise trusting of experts. Reeves' study of science experts is an example of expertise guiding us to wisdom.

~Scot McKnight, Professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary, and Co-author,  Adam and the Genome, a book written with an expert in science

The American public is in the midst of an epistemological crisis. Josh Reeves provides one extremely important sector of that public--practicing Christians--with the theological, philosophical, and historical tools necessary to wrestle with and address that crisis in a thoughtful and intelligent way.

~Elaine Howard Ecklund, Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Rice University

In a bewildering era of anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, climate change deniers, and their ilk, this book is the perfect antidote to science skepticism among Christians. Readers will find razor-sharp analysis and astute insights, from start to finish. It’s a riveting read. Even when I disagreed with some of Reeves’s arguments, I was always grateful for his Solomonic expertise on the critical questions. I heartily recommend this timely monograph.

~Hans Madueme, Associate Professor of Theological Studies, Covenant College