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THE REASON FOR GOD: BELIEF IN AN AGE OF SKEPTICISM

By Tim Keller

Dutton, $24.95, 320 pages

REVIEWED BY JON WARD

It's now time for the Christian counterpunch, responding to the deluge of diatribes that have pounded away at God and his followers these past few years.

Faith is responsible for most of the world's problems, said Sam Harris in 2004. Believers are deluded, Richard Dawkins declared in 2006. And God is not great, argued Christopher Hitchens last year.

So up stands Tim Keller, theologian, intellectual, pastor, who shepherds a church of 5,000 in New York City (only don't call that a megachurch — those are only in the suburbs).

How do you plead, Mr. Keller, to the charge that religion has caused much of history's trouble and bloodshed?

Guilty, says Mr. Keller.

Guilty?