02285cam a22002898a 450000100090000000300090000900500170001800800410003501000170007602000430009304000190013608200120015599800070016710000340017424500910020826000470029930000270034650400530037350504470042650506620087350502320153565000170176765000230178494200080180799900170181595201630183216715393AU-EpEBC20130611102908.0110331s2011 ilu b 001 0 eng  a 2011013645 a9780830839353 (casebound : alk. paper) aDLCcDLCdNEMB00a239/GRO bEW1 aGroothuis, Douglas R.,d1957-10aChristian apologetics :ba comprehensive case for biblical faith /cDouglas Groothuis. aDowners Grove, IL :bIVP Academic,cc2011. a752 p. ;bhbk ;c24cm. aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. aPart 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 -- aPart 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 -- aPart 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. 0aApologetics. 0aGod (Christianity) 2ddc c11182d11182 00102ddc4070818aMAINbMAINcOPENd2013-06-11eThe Book Depositoryg33.10l2m1o239/GROp13750r2020-06-29 00:00:00s2019-02-07t1v65.00w2013-06-11yAM