A Place for Truth: Highlight from the Veritas Forum
Edited by Dallas Willard
Intervarsity Press, 2010, 325 pages, $20.00
A Place for Truth is a compilation of papers and debates given at various Veritas Forums around the country during the course of the past 10 years. Founded in 1992 at Harvard, the Veritas Forums have been a chance for the university world to explore some of the deepest questions of truth and life, as well as interact with the Christian perspective in an academic setting.
What A Place for Truth does is take some of the most notable presentations from various Veritas Forums and compile them around the central theme of truth, addressing areas such as social justice, atheism, faith and science, and the nature of truth itself.
While an entertaining and thoroughly engaging read (due to the superb presentations and Dallas Willard’s interesting introductions highlighting what he sees as some of the most significant topics), A Place for Truth is a very academic read. Its applicability therefore is somewhat limited to the average working youth pastor, whether actively engaged apologetically or not.
The subject matter of A Place for Truth is very prescient and necessary, but the text does not necessarily leap off the page or explain how its insights might make a difference in daily youth ministry.
