Can Irony and Humor be Persuasive for Christian Belief? - Dick Keyes

A lecture given by Dick Keyes at Southborough L'Abri on October 12th, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

 

Can Irony and Humor be Persuasive for Christian Belief?

The Christian diagnosis for our situation is that we are each a “glorious ruin”. That human condition is itself bound up in profound ironies. As we look at the efforts of Biblical figures to persuade people to believe the Gospel, we can learn from their use of irony as they did it.

 

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