Introducing Apologetics: Cultivating Christian CommitmentQuestions about the truthfulness of Christianity deserve thoughtful, balanced, and reasonable answers. James Taylor provides a fresh, comprehensive survey of the many methods of Christian apologetics using a unique, whole-person approach. He addresses core apologetics issues facing Christians in the twenty-first century, including the evidence for God's existence, the challenge of evil, the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, world religions, and more. This accessible text, now in paper, will appeal to students and all who wrestle with intellectual obstacles to faith. Each chapter contains an outline, summary, list of basic terms, reflection and discussion questions, and guide to further reading. Chapter overviews and sidebars enhance the text. |
Contents
Evidentialist Apologetics | |
More Objections to Apologetics | |
The Relevance of Apologetics | |
Apologetics and the Heart | |
The Miracles of Jesus | |
He Is Risen Indeed The Resurrection of Jesus | |
The Trinity and the Incarnation | |
Salvation and Damnation | |
The Problem of Religious Pluralism I | |
The Problem of Religious Pluralism II | |
Contemporary Challenges to Christian Commitment | |
Commitment Canon and Community | |
Audiences for Apologetics | |
Commitment to | |
Worldview Options | |
Monotheism | |
Cosmological Explanations | |
Teleological Explanations | |
Why Do the Righteous Suffer? The Problem of Evil | |
The Problem of Evidence | |
Commitment to God in Christ | |
Who Do You Say I Am? The Person of Jesus | |
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