Defending your faith : an introduction to apologetics /
R.C. Sproul.
- Wheaton, IL : Crossway Books, c2003.
- 206 p. ; pbk ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction. Section 1 - The Apologetic Task. .The Task of Apologetics -- .Apologetics and Saving Faith. Section 2 - Essential Principles of Knowledge The Basic Tools of Knowing -- The Law of Non-Contradiction -- Contradiction, Paradox, and Mystery -- The Law of Causality -- Hume's Critique of Causality and the Basic Reliability of Sense Perception -- Logical Positivism and Its Ghosts Today - Analogical Use of Language. Section 3 - Natural Reason and Faith. Natural Theology and Science -- Aquinas and Kant. Section 4 - The Case for God's Existence. Four Possibilities -- Self-Creation -- Chance Creation -- Self-Existence -- Self-Existent Universe. Section 5 - God and the Philosophers. The God of the Philosophers and the God of the Bible -- Kant's Moral Argument -- The Nihilists -- The Psychology of Atheism. Section 6 - The Case for Biblical Authority. The Authority of the Bible -- Jesus' Teaching Regarding Scripture -- The Trustworthiness of the Teaching of Jesus -- The Testimony of the Holy Spirit. Conclusion.