The Doubters’ Creed

Can you still be a Christian if you don’t believe it’s true?

For millions of Christians, the faith begins with the confession “I believe.” Indeed, for two thousand years, the church has been writing detailed confessional statements that disciples of Jesus are expected to believe. Christianity, it has been said, is a religion of creeds.

However, what if you want to follow Jesus but you have doubts? What if you find that you can’t believe every orthodox confession in the creed? What if the great creeds appear to you to constitute a stumbling block the size of a mountain with sheer cliffs of doubt that you fear you can never climb?

What do you do when you find that you doubt or even disbelieve the very doctrines you are supposed to confess?

In The Doubters’ Creed, theologian Randal Rauser offers a guide up this “Mount Improbable” for sympathetic disbelievers and Christian doubters alike. Theologically rooted yet eminently practical, this book provides a path to participate in the life of Christian faith even when you falter on the very first words: “I believe.”