Abstract

McInerny brings his considerable learning and literary skills to a defense of natural theology against both the skeptic and modern atheist who deny its possibility. As the title of the book suggests, “we are all characters in a human drama in search of our author.” If there is a God who is the author of us all, awareness of his existence should surely not be restricted to a few. Indeed, affirmations of the existence of God, or the gods, is as old as the human race. Modern atheism, an epistemological negation of that ancient and universal affirmation, is not a natural state, McInerny argues, but a consequence of the starting point of modern philosophy.