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    <title>Why I am a Christian</title>
    <subTitle>leading thinkers explain why they believe</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Geisler, Norman L.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1932-</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Hoffman, Paul K.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1955-</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Baker Books</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2001</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2001</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>318 p. ; hbk ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction / Norman L. Geisler and Paul K. Hoffman.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Part 1 : Why I believe in truth.
1. Why I am not a moral relativist / Francis J. Beckwith --
2. Why I believe truth is real and knowable / Norman L. Geisler --</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Part 2. Why I believe in God.
3. Why I am not an Atheist / J. Budziszewski --
4. Why I believe God exists / William Lane Craig --
5. Why I believe the God of the Bible is the one true God / Norman L. Geisler --</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Part 3. Why I believe in miracles.
6. Why I believe in the possibility of miracles / R. Douglas Geivett --
7. Why I believe the miracles of Jesus actually happened / Gary R. Habermas --
8. Why I believe in the miracle of divine creation / Hugh Ross.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Part 4. Why I believe the Bible is the Word of God.
9. Why I believe the New Testament is historically reliable / Gary R. Habermas --
10. Why I believe the Bible is scientifically reliable / Walter Bradley -- 
11. Why I believe the Bible alone is the Word of God / Winfried Corduan --</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Part 5. Why I believe Jesus is the Messiah and Son of God.
12. Why I believe Jesus is the promised Messiah / Barry R. Leventhal --
13. Why I believe Jesus is the Son of God / Peter Kreeft --</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Part 6. Why I have chosen to follow Christ.
14. Why I still believe in Christ, in spite of evil and suffering / John Feinberg --
15. Why I have made Jesus Christ lord of my life / J.P. Moreland --
16. Why I believe Jesus Christ is the ultimate source for meaning / Ravi Zacharius --</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Afterword / Josh McDowell.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Norman L. Geisler and Paul K. Hoffman, editors.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-316).</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Apologetics</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">239/WHY</classification>
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