God in the Dark

Guinness's second book, published by InterVarsity Press in 1976 (in Britain by Lion as Doubt: Faith in Two Minds). It treats doubt not as the opposite of faith but as a state of being in two minds, suspended between believing and disbelieving, and it distinguishes several kinds of doubt, each with its own causes, with counsel for working through them. Guinness revised the book and reissued it with Crossway in 1996 as God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith beyond a Shadow of Doubt, the title under which it is now sold; his own site describes it as a book on the dangers and the value of doubt and on how believers can work through it. It belongs to the period after his years at L'Abri, alongside The Dust of Death.