A wonderful book that heavily influenced Andrew J. Brown’s personal studies and religious trajectory.
Christian faith is the attempt to unify the subjective and the objective (i.e., the eternal) into one through a subject’s passion—absurd passion, which is faith. Edwards differentiates this from the “pagan” way of approaching the eternal, which is by using reason.
References
Edwards, James C. The Plain Sense of Things: The Fate of Religion in an Age of Normal Nihilism. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.