Christianity on the Offense
Overview
Today's relativistic culture says that all paths lead to the same mountaintop, that dozens of religions and secular philosophies are all equally legitimate (or equally fraudulent, depending on the critic). Is there such a thing as absolute truth by which religious truth-claims can be tested? How does a person defend his or her Christian faith as the only path to the "mountaintop"?
Author and Christian apologist Dan Story confirms the validity and necessity of absolute truth and shows the reader that any Christian can learn how to defend his or her faith. By understanding non-Christian worldviews, believers will know how to respond to critical arguments. The author encourages the reader with the fact that Christianity is unique among the world religions. The Christian faith rests on a firm foundation of objective facts that can be tested and verified.
In a society that has become increasingly antagonistic toward those who do not rally around the banner of tolerance, this book will encourage the reader to stand firm in the Christian faith.
Top Highlights
“Truth is a fact that, by its very nature, is immutable—it cannot change.” (Page 23)
“Most arguments against Christianity are based on faulty assumptions.” (Page 10)
“The proper response to these kinds of objections is to deal with the presuppositions or assumptions on which they depend. If one’s presuppositions are in error, all truth-claims flowing from them are equally false. A house built on a foundation of sand will crumble with the first rain regardless of how sound the rest of the house is built.” (Page 11)
“In the broadest sense, a worldview is the standard by which an individual, consciously and unconsciously, interprets all data so as to maintain a consistent and coherent understanding of the whole of reality.” (Page 39)
“The most fundamental of these first principles are the laws of logic, in particular the ‘law of non-contradiction.’ It states that something cannot be two different things at the same time and in the same sense (‘A’ cannot be both ‘A’ and ‘non-A’ at the same time and in the same relationship).” (Pages 24–25)
Product Details
- Title: Christianity on the Offense
- Author: Dan Story
- Publisher: Kregel
- Publication Date: 1998
- Pages: 191
Sample Pages from the Print Edition
Reviews
1 rating
Paul Chatfield
1/10/2012
As always, quality from Dan Story. This, the logical first book before Christianity on the Offense and Engaging the Closed Minded. Useful for unbelievers, he has a fairly tight logic to his arguments which make his writings attractive to me to use in outreach though of course you couldn't lend it to an unbeliever given it's on logos ...
