Defending Your Faith
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Defending Your Faith

An Introduction to Apologetics

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eBook - ePub

Defending Your Faith

An Introduction to Apologetics

About this book

Apologetic Primer Explains How Reason Supports Christianity's Claims

From the classroom to mainstream media, Christians regularly find their fundamental beliefs discounted by opponents who consider faith to be incompatible with reason. Faith is viewed as subjective, emotional, and a crutch for those who find the real world too hard. The late R. C. Sproul, however, claims faith reveals just how rational Christianity truly is.Ā 

This book surveys the history and fundamentals of apologetics to demonstrate how reason and scientific inquiry actually support Christianity's claims—thus equipping believers to defend the existence of God and the Bible's authority. The defense of the faith is not a luxury or an intellectual vanity. It is a task appointed by God to give reason to your eternal hope as you bear witness before the world.

  • A Logical and Biblical Defense:Ā Sets forth the basic truth claims of Christianity to show the rationality of the Christian faith
  • Comprehensive:Ā Deals with arguments from philosophy, science, reason, logic, and history
  • Ideal for New and Seasoned Believers Alike:Ā Helps Christians know what they believe and why they believe it
  • Great Resource for Individual, Small Group, or Classroom Study

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Newsletter Signup
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Section i The Apologetic Task
  8. 1 The Task of Apologetics
  9. 2 Apologetics and Saving Faith
  10. Section ii The Four Essential Principles of Knowledge
  11. 3 Introducing the Four Principles
  12. 4 The Law of Noncontradiction
  13. 5 Contradiction, Paradox, and Mystery
  14. 6 The Law of Causality
  15. 7 Hume’s Critique of Causality and the Basic Reliability of Sense Perception
  16. 8 Logical Positivism and Its Ghosts Today: Analogical Use of Language
  17. Section iii Natural Reason and Faith
  18. 9 Natural Theology and Science
  19. 10 Aquinas and Kant
  20. Section iv The Case for God’s Existence: Four Possibilities
  21. 11 Illusion
  22. 12 Self-Creation
  23. 13 Creation by Chance
  24. 14 A Self-Existent Being
  25. 15 A Self-Existent Universe
  26. Section v God and the Philosophers
  27. 16 The God of the Philosophers and the God of the Bible
  28. 17 Kant’s Moral Argument
  29. 18 The Nihilists
  30. 19 The Psychology of Atheism
  31. Section vi The Case for Biblical Authority
  32. 20 The Authority of the Bible
  33. 21 Jesus’s Teaching About Scripture
  34. 22 The Trustworthiness of the Teaching of Jesus
  35. 23 The Testimony of the Holy Spirit
  36. Conclusion
  37. Notes
  38. General Index
  39. Scripture Index