Answering Atheism: How to Make the Case for God with Logic and Charity
Overview
In Answering Atheism, Trent Horn responds to today’s popular champions of atheism with a fresh and useful resource for the God debate, combining a thorough refutation of atheist claims with a skillfully constructed case for theism based on reason and common sense. Just as important, he advocates a charitable approach that respects atheists’ sincerity and good will—making this book suitable not just for believers but for skeptics and seekers too.
Meticulously researched—and street-tested in Horn’s work as apologist—Answering Atheism tackles all the major issues of the debate. Subjects covered include reconciling evil and suffering with the existence of a loving, all-powerful God, answering objections to arguments for God’s existence, and whether the empirical sciences have eliminated the need for God—or in fact point to him. Answering Atheism will both thoroughly equip readers to rebut atheists’ challenges and to share with them the good news that God is real.
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Key Features
- Responds to today’s popular champions of atheism
- Presents a skillfully constructed case for theism
- Tackles all the major issues of the debate on atheism
Top Highlights
“Although we live in a culture that equates faith with ‘blindly accepting something as true,’ it may be more helpful to think of faith instead as a kind of ‘trust’ that is based on good reasons.” (Page 23)
“Theists believe that a personal God exists who interacts with the world.” (Page 17)
“An illustration might help explain the burden of proof both sides share. In a murder trial the prosecution must show beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the murder. But if the prosecution isn’t able to make its case, then the defendant is found not guilty. Notice the defendant isn’t found innocent. For all we know, he could have committed the crime, but we just can’t prove it.” (Page 21)
“Agnosticism (from gnosis, the Greek word for knowledge) is the position that a person cannot know if God exists” (Page 20)
“Christian God understands suffering and has come to Earth to redeem man from that suffering.” (Page 98)
Praise for the Print Edition
I’ve read many works of popular apologetics; this is the best.
—Stephen Bullivant, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Atheism
Answering Atheism gets high grades on the three R’s: It is readable, reasonable, and researched. Its defense of the cosmological argument has depth and detail, yet it is not so technical that you need to take a philosophy course to comprehend it.
—Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy, Boston College
If you read only one book that shows the reasonableness and beauty of belief in God, it should be Trent Horn’s Answering Atheism.
—Kevin Vost, author, Memorize the Reasons!
- Title: Answering Atheism: How to Make the Case for God with Logic and Charity
- Author: Trent Horn
- Publisher: Catholic Answers
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 336
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christianity and atheism; Apologetics; Skepticism
- ISBNs: 9781938983436, 9781938983443, 9781938983450, 1938983432, 1938983440, 1938983459
- Resource ID: LLS:NSWERINGATHEISM
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:28:26Z