Christian Apologetics

by Groothuis, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780830839353
• ISBN10: 0830839356
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-30
• Publisher: Ivp Academic

Summary

2012Christianity TodayBook Award of Merit winner!The Christian worldview proposes answers to the most enduring human questions. But are those answers reliable? In this systematic text, Douglas Groothuis makes a comprehensive apologetic case for Christian theism--proceeding from a defense of objective truth to a presentation of the key arguments for God from natural theology to a case for the credibility of Jesus, the incarnation and the resurrection. Throughout, Groothuis considers alternative views and how they fare intellectually.

Author Biography

Douglas Groothuis (Ph.D., philosophy, University of Oregon) is professor of philosophy at Denver Seminary and teaches philosophy at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He is the author of ten books, including Truth Decay, Unmasking the New Age, On Jesus, On Pascal and In Defense of Natural Theology (coeditor and contributor). He has published two dozen academic articles in journals such as Religious Studies, Think, Inquiry, Sophia and Philosophia Christi.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Apologetic Preliminaries
Introduction: Hope, Despair and Knowing Reality	p. 15
The Biblical Basis for Apologetics	p. 23
Apologetic Method: Evaluating Worldviews	p. 45
The Christian Worldview	p. 73
Distortions of the Christian Worldview-Or the God I Don't Believe In	p. 95
Truth Defined and Defended	p. 117
Why Truth Matters Most: Searching for Truth in Postmodern Times	p. 139
Faith, Risk and Rationality: The Prudential Incentives to Christian Faith	p. 155
The Case for Christian Theism
In Defense of Theistic Arguments	p. 171
The Ontological Argument	p. 185
Cosmological Arguments: A Cause for the Cosmos	p. 207
The Design Argument: Cosmic Fine-Tuning	p. 240
Origins, Design and Darwinism	p. 266
Evidence for Intelligent Design	p. 297
The Moral Argument for God	p. 330
The Argument from Religious Experience	p. 364
The Uniqueness of Humanity: Consciousness and Cognition	p. 389
Deposed Royalty: Pascal's Anthropological Argument	p. 418
Jesus of Nazareth: How Historians Can Know Him and Why It Matters	p. 438
The Claims, Credentials and Achievements of Jesus Christ	p. 475
Defending the Incarnation	p. 507
The Resurrection of Jesus	p. 527
Objections to Christian Theism
Religious Pluralism: Many Religions, One Truth	p. 567
Apologetics and the Challenge of Islam	p. 599
The Problem of Evil: Dead Ends and the Christian Answer	p. 614
Conclusion: Take It to the Streets	p. 647
Hell on Trial	p. 653
Apologetic Issues in the Old Testament	p. 662
Glossary	p. 677
Bibliography	p. 680
Name Index	p. 732
Subject Index	p. 739
Scripture Index	p. 748
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