Confessions of a French Atheist: How God Hijacked My Quest to Disprove the Christian Faith

Guillaume Bignon was a French atheist . . . and he was perfectly happy. He was very successful as a software engineer in finance, a musician, and a volleyball player. Yet a chance encounter with a beautiful woman would change the way he thought about his life and beliefs forever. Confessions of a French Atheist is the unusual story of Guillaume Bignon—a man who didn’t need God but who grew to believe in God after he thought through the nature of morality, the relationship between science and faith, the supernatural, and the reliability of the Bible. With rigorous reasoning, remarkable authenticity, and a sense of humor, Guillaume takes the reader on a journey of his innermost questions and surprising discoveries.

Publisher: Tyndale
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781496443021

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Guillaume Bignon was born and raised in France, where he studied math, physics, and engineering science. He currently works as a software engineering manager. After a wholly improbable conversion from atheism to Christianity, Guillaume earned a master's in biblical literature with an emphasis on the New Testament, and a PhD in philosophical theology. His areas of interest include the metaphysics of free will, natural theology, and soteriology. Guillaume is an executive committee member of Association Axiome, a society of French-speaking Christian scholars. He and his wife, Katherine, have five young (and adorable) children.

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I have long thought―from both my readings and friendships―that the French do atheism better than pretty much anyone else. But Guillaume Bignon’s Confessions of a French Atheist shows that the French can also make the best public advocates for the Christian faith. Here is a story full of culture, verve, thoughtfulness, emotion, and intelligence. Bignon is as comfortable discussing romance, sex, and beauty as he is science, history, and philosophy. The arguments here are strong and so are the aesthetics. If France has long represented the leading edge of a post-Christian society, a book like this shows there is a way back, not to Christendom but to Christ himself.' John Dickson, historian, author, and host of Undeceptions; lecturer and research associate at University of Sydney; distinguished fellow at Ridley College