a comprehensive case for biblical faith Groothuis, Douglas R. 1957- creator text bibliography ilu Downers Grove, IL IVP Academic c2011 2011 monographic eng

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752 p. ; hbk ; 24cm. Part 1 : Apologetic preliminaries. Introduction : hope, despair and knowing reality ; The Biblical basis for apologetics ; Apologetic method : evaluating worldviews ; The Christian worldview ; Distortions of the Christian worldview, or, The God I don't believe in ; Truth defined and defended ; Why truth matters most : searching for truth in postmodern times ; Faith, risk and rationality : the prudential incentives to Christian faith -- Part 2 : The case for Christian theism. In defense of theistic arguments ; The ontological argument ; The cosmological arguments : a cause for the cosmos ; The design argument : cosmic fine-tuning ; Origins, design and Darwinism ; Evidence for intelligent design ; The moral argument for God ; The argument from religious experience ; The uniqueness of humanity : consciousness and cognition ; Deposed royalty : Pascal's anthropological argument ; Jesus of Nazareth : how historians can know him and why it matters / by Craig L. Blomberg ; The claims, credentials and achievements of Jesus Christ ; Defending the Incarnation ; The Resurrection of Jesus -- Part 3 :Objections to Christian theism. Religious pluralism : many religions, one truth ; Apologetics and the challenge of Islam ; The problem of evil : dead ends and the Christian answer ; Conclusion : take it to the streets. Douglas Groothuis. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Apologetics God (Christianity) 239/GRO 9780830839353 (casebound : alk. paper) 2011013645 DLC 110331 20130611102908.0 16715393