TY  - BOOK
AU  - Groothuis,Douglas R.
TI  - Christian apologetics: a comprehensive case for biblical faith 
SN  - 9780830839353 (casebound : alk. paper)
U1  - 239/GRO 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Downers Grove, IL
PB  - IVP Academic
KW  - Apologetics
KW  - God (Christianity)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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
ER  -