Believing Clayboy: A Critical Analysis of Steven L. VanderStaay’s Work

Steven L. VanderStaay’s “Believing Clayboy” is a reflective and honest tale of imaginative engagement with an object as well as its impact on developing a belief systems. Steven L. VanderStaay seeks to identify why someone might either refuse or come to genuinely believe in the accounts presented by Christians. With the direction that church leaders, clergy, theologians, and even New Testament scholars seem to fail meeting the Christian community’s needs, the author concludes that the best approach to address Clayboy issue on belief would be via recognition of the reality that God might have interest related, end, or non-genuine commitment to some projects (VanderStaay, 2018). The extensive theological discourse fails to answer the Clayboy issue due to lack of genuine and comprehensive engagement with the issue. It is also authored that belief is general and specific, indicating that Christians should ask about belief without presuming them (Maffei, 2021). This paper is about a Christian that believes without truth, guiltily doubts, and doubts troubles missing the Clayboy for Christians.