This is essential reading for the Christian or those with nagging questions about faith and reason. I am still working on reading it, but have read about half so far and have found it to be insightful and thought-provoking.
Kevin Swanson writes about many influential men who apostatized from the faith, either in their own lifetimes or in their lineage. The first part--called The Nephilim--covers Thomas Aquinas, Rene Descartes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jeremy Bentham, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Fredrich Nietzsche, John Dewey, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
The second part--called The Literary Nephilim--covers William Shakespeare, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck.
The third part--The Cultural Nephilim--covers the influence of musicians and the church, and sums up with a call to follow Christ.
You will most likely learn much from this book, perhaps some surprising things and some disturbing things, but you will also see the futility and destructiveness of man-centered thinking. I highly recommend this book, and see it as very important for anyone in our day.
Almost a 5-star read for me. It's just a bit depressing overall, though it ends on a more positive note.
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