Read On Guard to deepen your own faith and to embolden your confidence in sharing that faith with others.” Mark Mittelberg, author of Faith Path, Choosing Your Faith, and coauthor of The Unexpected Adventure Chapter eight and nine offer logical outlines at the end of each chapter, rather than argument maps.“There is probably no greater defender of the Christian faith alive today than William Lane Craig. Chapter nine, Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?, is Craig’s case for the resurrection based on three virtually undisputed historical facts. Craig looks at the New Testament documents and the historical method, and then outlines Jesus’ explicit and implicit claims to divinity. Chapter eight, Who Was Jesus?, shifts the emphasis to Christianity and the resurrection. Various versions of the objection of evil and suffering are addressed here. Sidebars define new words for the beginner, text insets offer brief historical vignettes of notable thinkers, and recommended discussion questions act as milestones beside the main text.Ĭhapter seven, What About Suffering?, moves from positive arguments to defensive arguments from atheism. The benefit for the reader, however, is that each one is described in simple terms. By now, those familiar with Craig’s public debates realize that these are all of the arguments he uses in his usual cumulative case for God’s existence. In chapter six, Can We Be Good Without God?, Craig details the moral argument. In addition to the main points of the argument, Craig provides a response to Dawkins’ popular objection to the argument.

Chapter five, Why is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life?, presents the teleological argument for the fine-tuning of the universe for intelligent life. Argument maps follow this chapter (and others) and provide a pro/con arguments and responses for the main points and premises of the argument.

This is a welcome personal touch and compliments the book nicely.Ĭhapter four, Why Did the Universe Begin?, lays out the Kalam Cosmological argument with philosophical and scientific support for its premises. The interlude resumes and concludes later between chapters seven and eight. Between chapters three and four is an interlude – A Philosopher’s Journey of Faith – in which Craig shares his personal testimony and charts the path his studies took. In chapter three, Why Does Anything At All Exist?, Craig presents the first argument for God’s existence, the Leibnizian Cosmological Argument. Chapter two opens the question of What Difference Does it Make if God Exists?, in which he explores the absurdity of life without God. Craig begins in chapter one by defining apologetics and describing its importance. For those familiar with Craig’s signature book Reasonable Faith, some of the main topics and arrangement are very similar.

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