
- 230 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- cover
- Title Page
- copyright
- Contents
- Dedication and Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Opening Statement
- 2 God? gods? Or Nothing?
- 3 Who God Is Not!
- 4 Who Is God? (Part One)
- 5 Who Is God? (Part Two)
- 6 Biolinguistics and the Communicating God
- 7 Reality and the God of Truth
- 8 Right, Wrong and the Moral God
- 9 Free Will, Moral Responsibility and the Infinite, Just God
- 10 The Audacity of the Resurrection
- 11 Death and Eternity
- 12 Closing Argument
- Notes
- Praise for Christianity On Trial
- About the Author
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