Faith Has Its Reasons: Integrative Approaches to Defending the Christian Faith

by Kenneth Boa; Robert M. Bowman Jr.

Publisher:

IVP

, 2012

Overview

Ever since the apostle Paul addressed the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers in Athens, relating the Christian worldview to a non-Christian world has been a challenge. And despite Peter’s charge to be ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you (1 Peter 3:15), most Christian laypeople have left apologetics—the defense of the faith—to the ecclesiastical pros.

Faith Has Its Reasons is a study of four different models of how apologetics should be done, an assessment of their strengths and weaknesses, and a proposal for integrating the best insights of each. Kenneth Boa and Robert Bowman have assembled a wealth of information about what Christians believe and how to present that faith to an unbelieving world. Remarkable both in its depth of content and ease of accessibility, Faith Has Its Reasons gives Christian laypeople the tools to address such critical questions as:

Why is belief in God rational despite the prevalence of evil in the world?

What facts support the church’s testimony that Jesus rose from the dead?

Can we be certain Christianity is true?

How can our faith in Christ be based on something more secure than our own understanding without descending into an irrational emotionalism?

Key Features

• Assembles a wealth of information about what Christians believe
• Shows how to present that faith to an unbelieving world.
• Locates the importance of apologetics in the life of the church.

Praise for Faith Has Its Reasons

Applying the principle of ‘unity in diversity’ to apologetic systems, this book integrates the best insights of each approach. In challenging readers to maximize the stunning reasons for faith in concert with the magnetic power of transformed hearts, Faith Has Its Reasons charts the right course for the future of apologetics.

--David K. Clark, author of Dialogical Apologetics

Ken Boa is one of the most gifted writers and scholars in the Christain world. This is a brilliantly done apologetics reference. The title tells it all--our faith is not an unreasonable faith.

--Charles W. Colson, Prison Fellowship

I know of no better analysis of Christian apologetic systems than Faith Has Its Reasons. It is comprehensive and rigorous, yet eminently readable. However, the book’s greatest virtue is its ability to locate the importance of apologetics in the life of the church as well as in the personal faith of the individual believer.

--Francis J. Beckwith, coeditor of To Everyone an Answer

Product Details

• Title: Faith Has Its Reasons: Integrative Approaches to Defending the Christian Faith
• Authors: Kenneth Boa, Robert M. Bowman Jr.
• Publisher: IVP
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Pages: 658
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Apologetics
• ISBNs: 9780830858910, 9780830856480, 083085648X, 0830858911
• Resource ID: LLS:9780830858910
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:40:38Z