Too often, Christians who find themselves feeling skeptical or melancholy are perplexed, troubled or even ashamed. In
Knowing Darkness, Addison Hodges Hart provocatively argues that both skepticism and melancholy can actually strengthen and deepen Christian faith.
Maintaining that these dark realities are not detrimental to faith, Hart draws from such biblical figures as Job and Qoheleth of Ecclesiastes and from the life and experience of Mother Teresa. Understanding the challenges that melancholy and skepticism present to those who experience them he reflects on the universal human need for bonds of genuine friendship.
Writing in a forthright, engaging style, Hart inspires us to look more deeply into troublesome matters of the heart and soul - emotions we would often rather ignore or condemn - and therein find a far more authentic faith.
"Hart persuades us not to mistake faith for hope or orthodoxy but to take it as itself, lived during times of joy and desolation alike."
-Library Journal
