In reply to this, we need to say that the Christian Faith is essentially dogmatic, because it claims to be a revealed Faith. If Christianity were just a collection of human ideas, then dogmatic certainty would be entirely out of place. But if (as Christians claim) God has spoken—both long ago through the prophets and in these last days through his Son1—what is wrong with believing what he has said and urging other people to believe it too? If there is a Word from God which may be read and received