Josh McDowell and Don Stewart provide clear, powerful, and persuasive answers to these questions and dozens more in Answers to Tough Questions.
With these words, world-renowned scholar and preacher John R. W. Stott embarks on a compelling course of study that fiest defends the fundamental claims of Christianity and then defines the proper outworkings of these basic beliefs in the daily lives of believers.
According to Zacharias, who has debated the issue in such settings as Harvard and Princeton Universities, how you answer the question of God's existence will impact your relationship with others, your commitment to integrity, your attitude toward morality, and your perception of truth.
This work on Christian apologetics is in three parts. Part One surveys various tests for truth in order to lay the groundwork for testing the truth of various world views....
In these pages, some of evangelicalism's most stimulating thinkers consider three possible apologetic responses to postmodernity.
Norman Geisler, with Ronald Brooks, shows how Christians can greatly improve their thinking skills. "To learn the rules of clear and correct thinking," the authors maintain, "is more than an academic exercise.
This is a book that both inspires and reassures…a search that uncovers our hidden sentiments and reveals God's continual, inescapable presence in every moment of our lives…a journey that ends in the consummate answer to the cries of the heart.
When Darwin proposed his theory of evolution over a century ago, little was known about life at the molecular level. The assumption was that as we learn more about how life on this planet works, we would discover the simple mechanisms which serve as its foundations.
Here you will find the common ground of what threatens us all. And from that common ground the answers will become clear and inescapable.
Rumors of deception have surrounded claims of Jesus' resurrection ever since the soldiers appointed to guard Jesus' tomb made their report to the Jewish authorities. But no one has led the philosophic charge against miracles quite as influentially as David Hume with his 1748 essay, "Of Miracles." Refined, revised, restated, his arguments still affect philosophic discussions of miracles today.
Makes the broad field of philosophy accessible to beginning students…The book will make a fine reference tool in its well-organized presentations of most of the significant philosophical positions and areas of interest.
Known as Jesus of Nazareth, His life has inspired more of the world's music and masterpieces than any king, military leader, scientist, or educator. Who has had more influence on civilization than Jesus?
This edition, revised by Marie Little, updates the discussions of science and archaeology and sharpens the answers for our world today.
In Love Your God with All Your Mind, J. P. Moreland presents a logical case for the role of the mind in spiritual transformation.
Christians today - especially in America - are woefully ignorant about the Bible, and what impact it can have on a world in darkness.
One of the most serious fallacies today is the belief that genuine scientists cannot believe tie Bible. But the truth is that many of the major scientific contributions were made by scientists who were dedicated men of God.
For over a century, the scientific establishment has ignored challenges to the theory of evolution. But in the last decade such complacency about its scientific and philosophical foundations has been shaken. As cracks in the Darwinian edifice have begun to appear, many are asking whether a defensible alternative exists.
Mind on Fire is an easy-to-read translation of the classic Pensees by Blaise Paschal. Here the remarkable seventeenth -century mathematician, physicist, and religious thinker presents his uncompromising defense of the Christian faith - a rigorous refutation of the myth that to become a Christian is to commit intellectual suicide.
In More Than a Carpenter Josh focuses upon the person who changed his life - Jesus Christ. It is a hard-headed book for people who are skeptical about Jesus' deity, his resurrection, his claims on their lives.
Reason for the Hope Within addresses in an informal and accessible manner questions that are frequently asked by intelligent and reflective church leaders and laity.
In 1925 a schoolteacher was taken to court for teaching evolution in the public school system. The famous Scopes Trial pushed Darwin to the forefront of our society.
"Scaling the Secular City is the most sophisticated apologetics book I have read. It lays out the issues, arguments, and counter-arguments in a thorough way. Moreland's special strength lies in philosophy of science, and the book makes a real advance in the interface between Christianity and science." ...
There are many questions today that demand answers in our daily lives; we can't avoid them.
After nearly nineteen centuries the canon of Scripture still remains an issue of debate for Christians and scholars.
Is there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God?
Lee McDonald has written a lucid and accessible account of the formation of the Christian Bible, clearly marshaling the major evidence , working through the main problems, and reaching persuasive conclusions. Treating separately the canons of the Old and New Testaments, he provides translations of most of the ancient primary sources, good summaries of scholarly debates, and a useful guide to the extensive scholarly literature on the subject.
Few Christians have had a greater impact during the last half of the twentieth century than Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer.
This book is chiefly an effort to examine the life, death and resurrection of Jesus from the perspective of pre- and nonbiblical evidence for these events.
How did we get our New Testament? Its pages were not dropped from heaven. Its words were not whispered into the eras of the apostles. In affirming the divine inspiration of Scripture, we too often forget the human side of the story.
Fact or fabrication? Christianity is founded upon historical events. If the claims and life of Jesus are mere fabrications, Christianity collapses.
Discover what new archaeological finds have to tell us about Israel's journey to the Promised Land, the fall of Jericho's walls, the Ark of the Covenant, the kings and prophets of Israel, the Assyrian and Babylonian invasions, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the time and people of Jesus, and more.
For professional students of the Bible who want a thorough explanation of and guide through the science of textual criticism, this is the book.
Ernst Wurthwein's classic introduction to the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible is now thoroughly updated in the light of new critical editions of the texts and recent contributions and findings in the various areas of the history of the text - especially the Masoretic text, the Septuagint, and the Peshitta, with attention given to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
This scholarly work outlines the attributes of god and gives scriptural support for each one.
Discover the clear and concise answers to every major Bible difficulty from Genesis to Revelation.
How will you feel when you stand before Christ for the judgment of your life?
Critics of the doctrine of creation often attempt to marginalize the great truths of God's creative acts.
This is a refreshing contemporary defense of the uniqueness of Christ against the background of our pluralistic society!
Since its publication in 1950, Protestant Biblical Interpretation has been a standard introduction to hermeneutics in evangelical colleges and seminaries.
Many Christians are not aware that a growing number of legitimate scientists now embrace the Genesis explanation of the origins.
No other study Bible does such a thorough job of explaining the historical context, unfolding the meaning of the text, and placing it within a theological framework.
