Christian Apologetics
Subtitle: an anthology of primary sources
By: edited by Khaldoun A. Sweis and Chad V. Meister
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 553
ISBN-13: 9780310325338
Subjects: Apologetics; Sources; History
Description: "Christian Apologetics: An Anthology of Primary Sources makes available over fifty primary source selections that address various challenges to Christian faith in the history of Christian apologetics. The compilation represents a broad Christian spectrum, ranging from early writers like Saint Paul and Saint Augustine, to Saint Teresa of Avila and Blaise Pascal, to more recent and present day apologists such as C. S. Lewis, Alvin Plantinga, William Lane Craig, Richard Swinburne and Pope Benedict XVI. Insightful introductions, black-and-white images, concise section headings and discussion questions guide readers toward a clearer understanding of classical defenses of Christianity. Annotated reading lists, a bibliography and author and subject indices contribute to the suitability of this anthology as a textbook or supplemental reader. Christian Apologetics: An Anthology of Primary Sources is an authoritative reference for key persons, concepts, issues and approaches in the history of Christian apologetics. It is especially useful as a supplemental textbook for students, allowing them to read great apologists and thinkers in their own words." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: General introduction; title: Part one : History, methodology, and engagement.; title: A first century apologetic : Acts 17 / Saint Paul; title: A short history of apologetics / John Warwick Montgomery; title: Varieties of apologetics / James K. Beilby; title: Interreligious apologetics / Harold Netland; title: The knowability of history / Norman L. Geisler; title: Advice to Christian philosophers / Alvin Plantinga; title: Part two : The existence of God.; title: The cosmological argument.; title: The classical cosmological argument / Thomas Aquinas; title: The Kalam cosmological argument / William Lane Craig; title: The argument from sufficient reason / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; title: The teleological argument.; title: The classical design argument / William Paley; title: Evidence for intelligent design from biochemistry / Michael J. Behe; title: A recent fine-tuning design argument / Robin Collins; title: The ontological argument.; title: The classical ontological argument / Anselm of Canterbury; title: A recent modal ontological argument / Alvin Plantinga; title: The transcendental argument.; title: A transcendental argument for God's existence / Greg Bahnsen, Gordon Stein; title: The wager.; title: The wager / Blaise Pascal; title: The moral argument.; title: God and the moral law / C.S. Lewis; title: The moral argument / Paul Copan; title: Religious experience.; title: Experiencing God / Teresa of Avila; title: On perceiving God / William Alston; title: Part three : The Trinity.; title: Regarding the Trinity / Origen; title: Trinitarian creeds; title: Treatise on the Most Holy Trinity / Thomas Aquinas; title: On the Trinity / Richard of St. Victor; title: The doctrine of the Trinity / Thomas V. Morris; title: Part four : The incarnation.; title: On the incarnation / Athanasius of Alexandria; title: On the incarnation / Anselm of Canterbury; title: The coherence of the incarnation / Thomas V. Morris; title: Part five : The Bible.; title: On the canon / Augustine; title: The authority and credibility of Scripture / John Calvin; title: The gospels as historical sources for Jesus / R.T. France; title: Archaeology and the Old Testament / Eugene Carpenter; title: Part six : Miracles.; title: A discourse on miracles / John Locke; title: Miracles and modern scientific thought / Norman Geisler; title: A case for miracles / Richard Swinburne; title: Part seven : The resurrection of Jesus.; title: The resurrection of Jesus / Thomas Aquinas; title: A juridical defense of Jesus' resurrection / John Warwick Montgomery; title: Experiences of the risen Jesus / Gary R. Habermas; title: The bodily resurrection of Jesus / William Lane Craig; title: Part eight : Body, soul, and the argument from mind.; title: On the soul and body / Thomas Aquinas; title: The cogito / René Descartes; title: God and the argument from mind / J.P. Moreland; title: Part nine : The problem of evil.; title: Evil and free will / Augustine; title: A free will defense / Alvin Plantinga; title: A soul making theodicy / John Hick; title: Evil, suffering, and Calvary / Peter Kreeft; title: Horrendous evil / Marilyn McCord Adams; title: Part ten : Christianity and science.; title: God and physics / John Polkinghorne; title: Design and science / Del Ratzsch; title: The origin of life's major groups / Kurt P. Wise; title: Part eleven : Christianity and the world.; title: Christians and the world : the epistle to Diognetus / author unknown; title: The city of God / Augustine; title: A Christian manifesto / Francis A. Schaeffer; title: Christianity : yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)