“One out of four Americans (23 percent) state that religious beliefs and teaching are the single, most significant influence on their thinking about whether or not there is such a thing as absolute moral truth. The next most prolific influence is said to be the Bible (15 percent). Other significant sources of influence about moral […]
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Balanced Apologetics
I have passed by this 1984 book in the book store but decided it was time to read it due to its sub-title: Using Evidences and Presuppositions in Defense of the Faith. The classic battle within apologetics has been whether to be an evidentialist or a presuppositionalist. The former argues that we can present our […]
Deliver Us From Evil
Having read and thoroughly enjoyed his first two books, I ordered this 1996 book by Zacharias as soon as it came out. Zacharias has become a well known lecturer on Atheism and American culture. This book is a brief history of America’s change from a Christian-oriented nation to a pluralistic and secularistic nation. The book […]
Are We Hurting Or Helping?
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify […]
Jesus in an Age of Controversy
This is the third book I have read by Groothuis and I have enjoyed and profited from each one. This is a much needed update on current Christological apologetics. He covers the Jesus Seminar, the new Gnosticism, the so-called Eastern travels of Jesus’ silent years and the resultant new spirituality, and the identification by some […]
The Trojan Horse In Atlanta
Nobody has written a real moral history of the Greeks. . . The wisest men in the world set out to be natural; and the most unnatural thing in the world was the very first thing they did. The immediate effect of saluting the sun and the sunny sanity of nature was a perversion spreading […]
True Evangelism
In connection with this month’s article on real and false faith, I reread this 1919 classic by Chafer. As with Machen’s book last month, if you didn’t know it, you would think this was written in the 90’s. I knew that Chafer questioned early evangelistic methods in this book and in it spoke against false […]
When Truth Doesn’t Matter
We live in an era that boasts of its vehement resistance to propositional truth. Truth is said to be a “relationship” or a “personal encounter.” Existential philosophy has placed so much stress on the personal and relational character of faith that an allergy has developed against propositional or objective truth. R.C. Sproul1 Richard Rorty said, […]
The Awesome Power of Shared Beliefs
Wagner is Vice President of Ministry Advancement for Promise Keepers. This book is one of many on the market now that promotes the PK movement. I am not a PK participant nor advocate. This book and my growing file on PK remind me that I am closer to writing a longer article expressing my conviction […]
Vital Apologetic Issues
This is the third book in the Vital Issues Series which I have reviewed. These all contain past articles from Bib Sac and have all been excellent. The three areas with which this volume deals are problem areas, creation science and archeology. The first section has an excellent article by Norman Geisler on Johannine Apologetics. […]