This audiobook shares their pain in wearing those labels, but more important, provides a model for how faithful Christians can hold opposing views on deeply divisive issues yet grow deeper in their relationship to each other and to God.ĭiscussion questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download. Christ, and many Christians who encountered the fierce heresy suppression in. The name derives from hot and tot iii, two sounds the Dutch interpreted as being common among the indigenous people’s language, just as the ancient Greeks called barbarians as such because they apparently made.

Todd Wood and Darrel Falk know what it's like to be thought of, respectively, as a fool and a heretic. Contemporary Catholic literature of religious instruction, on the other. Historically the Khoikhoi were referred to as Hottentots, a term first coined by the Dutch settlers of the Cape region.

To many outside the church as well as a growing number of evangelicals, anyone who accepts the view that God created the earth in six days a few thousand years ago must be poorly educated and ignorant-a fool. To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected biblical teaching and is therefore thought of as a heretic. The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church.

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