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Passionate Conviction: Contemporary Discourses on Christian Apologetics
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Product Description
Is your heart on fire for God?
Passionate Conviction brings together the most popular and heart-
stirring presentations in defense of Christianity from the annual fall
conference on apologetics held in association with the Evangelical
Philosophical Society, the C. S. Lewis Institute, and the Christian
Apologetics program at Biola University.
Applicable to pastors, serious-minded lay people, and university and
high school students, these twenty essays are grouped into six dynamic
categories: (1) Why Apologetics? (2) God (3) Jesus (4) Comparative
Religions (5) Postmodernism and Relativism (6) Practical Application.
Among the greatly respected contributors are J. P. Moreland (“Has the
American Church Lost Her Mind?), N. T. Wright (“The Resurrection
of Jesus as an Event of History”), Francis J. Beckwith (“Is Morality
Relative?”), Sean McDowell (“Apologetics for a New Generation”), and
Gary Habermas (“Dealing with Doubt”).
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #62529 in Books
- Published on: 2007-10-01
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
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About the Author
Paul Copan is the Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at
Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida. He holds
a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Marquette University.
William Lane Craig is research professor of Philosophy at Talbot
School of Theology in La Mirada, California. His Ph.D. in Philosophy
is from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
Customer Reviews
Good thinking articles on apologetics
Although most of these articles could mostly be found in their own writings published in other publications (which is typical for a book like this), the authors of Passionate Conviction do a great job overviewing some of the basics in Christian apologetics. There are six parts, including evidence for the existence of God (emphasis on cosmological and moral arguments), Jesus, comparative religion, and Postmodernism. In the first chapter, William Lane Craig writes on "In Intellectual Neutral," and he points out the encouraging point that more and more Christian thinkers are "coming out of the closet and defending the truth of the Christian worldview with philosophically sophisticated arguments in the finest secular journals and professional societies." This is awesome. Yet he later points out how Christian laypeople are not exercizing their mental faculties and need to become "intellectually engaged." He writes, "Our churches are filled with Christians who are idling in intellectual neutral." His article was a great way to get this book started, and I think many laypeople would benefit from an overview book such as this. (I highly recommend Lee Strobel's writings as other good places to start, as he deals with many of these same issues in a layperson-friendly format.) However, some of the articles are going to go over the layperson's head as several authors delve into some deeper philosophy. But, overall, I think this book would be a good primer for a Christian who wants to tackle the issues of faith and understand how we can make a better case for Christianity in the marketplace of ideas.
