Not God’s Type
A Rational Academic Finds a Radical Faith
ABOUT THE BOOK:
What happens when an atheist college professor at spiritual ground zero asks herself: “What if God is real?”
Dr. Holly Ordway was once hostile to Christianity, but once she started asking questions, she was determined to follow the evidence… and it took her where she never expected, or wanted, to end up: to the foot of the Cross.
In this memoir of her conversion, Holly Ordway turns her analytical mind toward the path that leads from darkness to light—from death to life.
Simultaneously encouraging and bracing, she offers a bold testimony to the ongoing power of the Gospel—a Gospel that can humble and transform even self-assured, accomplished, and secular-minded young professionals like herself.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dr Holly Ordway is a poet, academic, and Christian apologist. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an MA in English Literature from UNC Chapel Hill, and an MA in Christian Apologetics from Biola University.
She writes on the role of imagination and literature in apologetics, with special attention to the work of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and Charles Williams. Her favorite authors are C.S. Lewis and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and she considers a really good cup of coffee to be one of life’s simple pleasures.
“Some topics in Apologetics are not often given the serious treatment they deserve. Ordway is a careful thinker who has, to her credit, found a pastorally sensitive but interesting approach to a pivotal topic. Though this kind of personal topic is often underserved, Ordway has dealt with it in a rigorous way.”
– Dr. John Mark Reynolds, Director of the Torrey Honors Institute and Professor of Philosophy, Biola University. Author of When Athens Met Jerusalem: An Introduction to Classical and Christian Thought.
“A delightful read.”
– Greg Koukl, founder and president of Stand to Reason, and author of Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions.
“[T]he writing is lucid and engaging, as is the narrative itself… it is a great affirmation to believers to witness in the pages of the book the timeless truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the continuing work of the Holy Spirit, and the fellowship of the saints.”
– Dr. Karen Swallow Prior, Chair, Department of English and Modern Languages, Liberty University.
“Not God’s Type” was published by Moody Publishers.
