Christianity on Trial
eBook - ePub

Christianity on Trial

A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith

  1. 230 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Christianity on Trial

A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith

About this book

Does the Christian faith hold up under scrutiny? What does science tell us about the plausibility of a god? Can we trust the alleged eyewitness testimony of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus?These questions are worth investigating in order to find an answer solidified in fact and evidence. Mark Lanier, one of America's top trial lawyers, uses his experienced legal eye to examine the plausibility of the Christian faith. Bringing science, current knowledge, and common sense together in a courtroom approach, this "trial" elucidates a rich understanding of God and a strong foundation for Christian faith.Following the format of a traditional legal trial, Lanier takes us from opening statement to closing summation by way of testimony from well-known witnesses—the scientist, the theologian, the linguist, the humanist, the philosopher, the psychologist and the ancient biblical eye-witness. These sources and many others investigate the sticky subjects of the Christian worldview that are commonly scrutinized by skeptics or overlooked by marginal believers:

  • Who is God in light of astronomical and subatomic science?
  • How could divine inspiration of Scripture or Christ?s bodily resurrection be possible?
  • How should we see the nature of reality, free will and choice, ethics, morality and the idea of heaven and afterlife?

Lanier presents a persuasive case for the Christian faith and leaves it up to us to choose what is worthy of belief and what is not. Christianity on Trial provides a thought-provoking starting point in the search for truth.

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Table of contents

  1. cover
  2. Title Page
  3. copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication and Acknowledgments
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Opening Statement
  9. 2 God? gods? Or Nothing?
  10. 3 Who God Is Not!
  11. 4 Who Is God? (Part One)
  12. 5 Who Is God? (Part Two)
  13. 6 Biolinguistics and the Communicating God
  14. 7 Reality and the God of Truth
  15. 8 Right, Wrong and the Moral God
  16. 9 Free Will, Moral Responsibility and the Infinite, Just God
  17. 10 The Audacity of the Resurrection
  18. 11 Death and Eternity
  19. 12 Closing Argument
  20. Notes
  21. Praise for Christianity On Trial
  22. About the Author
  23. More Titles from InterVarsity Press