Evidence for Faith: Deciding the God Question
Over the past fifty years many valuable books have been written  in the area of Christian Apologetics.  Several authors' names come to  mind:  C.S. Lewis, E.J. Carnell, B. Ramm, N. Geisler, C. Pinnock, J.  McDowell, W.L. Craig, among many others.  John Warwick Montgomery  stands with them in a common mission.  For nearly forty years he has  persistently pointed thinking people to the cross of Christ, in his  debates with unbelievers and through this apologetical writings.  His  recent work, Evidence for Faith, carries on the mission admirably. What  makes this volume different from most others in its genre is (a) its  multiple authorship and (b) its broad range of subject matter.  The  anthology contains no less than twenty essays written by nine scholars  covering such diverse subjects as The Evidence from Cosmology,  Biomedical Prescience, Messianic Prophecy, The Problem of Evil, and  Legal Reasoning and Revelational Truth-Claims.  The authors are  especially well qualified in their disciplines, five of them having  been trained in both science and theology. The thesis of Montgomery's  essay, "A Juridical Defense of Christianity", is that legal reasoning,  when applied to Christianity, " . . . results in a verdict for the  Christian Faith."  The justification for using such reasoning lies ": .  . . in the difficulty in jettisoning it:  legal standards of evidence  develop as essential means of resolving the most intractable disputes  in society . . ." The author employs legal reasoning to answer four key  questions pertaining to the central truth claims of the Gospel.  He  examines: 1.  the reliability of the historical records of Jesus 2.   the reliability of the testimony concerning Jesus' life and divine  claims about Himself 3.  the resurrection as proof of his divine  claims, and 4.  the divine stamp of approval which Jesus placed upon  the Bible. There are valuable insights to be gleaned throughout the  essay, but perhaps especially interesting to the reader will be  Montgomery's application of a fourfold legal test for exposing perjury  to the question of the reliability of biblical testimony. Everyone who  believes in giving evidence for faith should want to have a copy of  this useful book.  Review by Prof. Gary Colwell, Concordia College, Edmonton, Alberta. --Christian Legal Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 3, Spring 1993.