Contending with Christianity's Critics: Answering New Atheists and Other Objectors
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Contending with Christianity’s Critics is book two in a series on modern Christian apologetics that began with the popular Passionate Conviction. This second installment, featuring writings from eighteen respected apologists such as Gary Habermas and Ben Witherington, addresses challenges from noted New Atheists like Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) and other contemporary critics of Christianity concerning belief in God, the historical Jesus, and Christianity’s doctrinal coherence. Contending with Christianity’s Critics and Passionate Conviction are the result of national apologetics conferences sponsored by the Evangelical Philosophical Society (www.epsociety.org).
- Seeks to address challenges from the New Atheists and other contemporary critics of Christianity concerning belief in God, the historical Jesus, and Chistianity's doctrinal coherence
- Seeks to enourage believers in their faith, strengthen their minds and embolden their witness
- Succeeds Passionate Conviction as volume 2 of an ongoing series in accessible, cutting edge Christian apologetics
Top Highlights
“God is one immaterial soul (substance) with three distinct centers of consciousness, rationality, will, and agency (persons) who are deeply and necessarily interconnected, and they share the same unique divine nature.” (Page 209)
“design is the best explanation of the appearance of design in the universe, one needn’t be able to explain the designer.” (Page 4)
“members of the Trinity share the same being—not simply the same nature. That is, God is one substance” (Page 213)
“key tenet of Enlightenment thinking that religious speculation does not produce knowledge” (Page 9)
“Within God is intimate union as well as distinction, an unbreakable communion of persons” (Page 209)
“What a fantastic idea! Assemble some of the brightest Christian thinkers and scholars and put before them the most difficult questions faced by Christian believers anywhere, and then turn them loose to answer those questions. The result: one of the finest collections of essays answering contemporary challenges to the Christian worldview anywhere in print. I consider this essential reading for anyone who wants to be on the cutting edge of Christian thought and apologetics.”
Craig J. Hazen, Ph.D., founder and director of the Christian Apologetics Program, Biola University, author of the novel, Five Sacred Crossings
“Contending with Christianity’s Critics is a tour de force. Copan and Craig have brought together an exciting, first-rate group of thinkers, and they have produced an important volume. An important feature of the book is the breadth of its coverage of issues not often addressed in similar works. I am enthusiastic about Contending with Christianity’s Critics.”
J.P. Moreland, distinguished professor of Philosophy, Biola University, and author of The God Question
- Title: Contending with Christianity's Critics: Answering New Atheists and Other Objectors
- Authors: Paul Copan, William Lane Craig
- Publisher: B&H
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Apologetics; Bible › Evidences, Authority, etc; Theology
- ISBNs: 9781087792507, 9781433668456, 1433668459, 1087792509
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433668456
- Resource Type: Monograph
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