Sketchy Views: A Beginner’s Guide to Making Sense of God

by Dan DeWitt

Publisher:

New Growth Press

, 2023

Overview

Is your understanding of who God is and how he works in our lives today a little sketchy? Daniel DeWitt’s Sketchy Views is a beginner’s guide to making sense of God.

Everybody has beliefs about God. There are a million ways to get God wrong, but there’s only a narrow path to getting him right. In order to understand God, we have to go back to the Bible, but that can be overwhelming if you are new to theology.

Sketchy Views uses words and sketches to help readers visually connect with and understand what basic Christian theology is and is not. DeWitt helps readers understand why what we think about God is the most important thing about us. Because God is the most important topic a person can think about, the way we think about God (our theology) is our most valuable and important collection of our thoughts and words.

Illustrations clarify the basics of theology, Christian thinking, and making sense of worldview issues.

Skeptics, atheists, and theological novices will learn basic truths about God and how Christians through the ages have come to these conclusions.

Readers will be challenged to examine their basic beliefs about God and themselves and see how they affect every part of life.

Key Features

• Challenges readers to examine their basic beliefs about God and themselves
• Helps readers understand why what we think about God is the most important thing about us
• Uses words and sketches to help readers connect with and understand what basic Christian theology is

Contents

Section 1: God’s Word

• Chasing Elephants
• Three Divine Eyes
• Oh, the Humanity!

Section 2: God

• What’s the Matter?
• Saint Patrick on Bad Analogies
• The Ocean in a Teacup

Section 3: God’s World

• Mere Creation
• Our World Fallen
• The Stargazer’s Song
• The Mouth of the River

Praise for Sketchy Views

In typical Daniel DeWitt fashion, this book successfully takes thinkers on an epic journey into the most important topic they could consider: God. Mixing ample cultural allusions with a healthy dose of humor (sometimes self-deprecating, sometimes merely dad jokes, but always keeping the reader on task), DeWitt guides his readers through some of the most treacherous theological waters they will ever face.

—Jonathan Arnold, Associate Professor of Theological Studies, Cedarville University

What we believe about God our Creator is the most important thing about us. It shapes how we live in the world. It impacts how we serve our family, friends, and neighbors. It matters for both this life and eternity. That's why Sketchy Views is a great resource for Christians to think about what they believe.

—FLAME, Grammy-nominated and Stellar award-winning artist

Daniel DeWitt’s gracious humility, friendly humor, gentle consideration, and easy-to-follow logic make complex concepts surprisingly easy to understand and controversial topics approachable. I look forward to giving Sketchy Views to my friends and family.

—Jennifer Greenberg, Author of Not Forsaken: A Story of Life After Abuse

Product Details

• Title: Sketchy Views
• Author: Dan DeWitt
• Publisher: New Growth Press
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Pages: 226
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781645072881, 1645072886
• Resource ID: LLS:SKETCHYVIEWS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-10T21:32:27Z

About Dan DeWitt

Daniel DeWitt, PhD, is a senior fellow at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, MO, where he leads the Center for Worldview and Culture and teaches courses on theology, apologetics, and C.S. Lewis. He is the author of Jesus or Nothing (Crossway, 2014), Christ or Chaos (Crossway, 2016), Life in the Wild: Fighting for Faith in a Fallen World (The Good Book Company, 2018), and The Friend Who Forgives (The Good Book Company, 2018). He posts regularly on his blog, and you can follow him on Twitter. He and his wife April live in Cedarville, OH, with their four children.