If you are interested in knowing whether you are Classical, Evidential, Cumulative, Presuppositional or Reformed in your apologetical approach to evangelism, you might try this book. This is one of the Counterpoints series edited by Stanley Gundry. Can you appeal to a lost man’s ability to reason spiritual things? Your answer to that question might […]
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Book Genre: Theology - Apologetics
The Case for Faith
After having thoroughly enjoyed Stobel’s first book, The Case For Christ, I was eager to tackle this second one. These are apologetically laced with arguments for the validity of the Biblical record. I enjoy the interview style with some great American thinkers. The disappointment in the book is the interview with J.P. Moreland in which […]
The God Who Is There
IVP has done a 30th anniversary edition of this classic apologetic. I reread the book to search for things I had forgotten and found it to be as fresh as if Schaeffer had written it this year. What he continually calls “the new theology” (in 1968) is exactly what we are seeing as accepted theology […]
Relativism
This is a new book that explores the way in which today’s generation thinks about right and wrong. In one part, the authors state, “But if relativists are consistent, there’s another problem: Those who deny all morality are twisted and a threat to society. On their view, the worst that could be said of Charles […]
The God of the Bible and Other Gods
Lightner is not a stranger to apologetic books. This is a 1998 writing which validates the Christian faith against other contemporary views. It reads like a refresher course on the major doctrines and I think would be a good book to start a new believer out on. It includes a section, along with helpful charts, […]
The Case For Christ
Strobel has a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School and has been a journalist with the Chicago Tribune and other papers. He became a Christian by pursuing the evidence for Christianity in the same way he pursued cases as a journalist. This book takes you on that journey as he interviews […]
The Everlasting Man
Starting off the year with this book was not an easy task. As a matter of fact, I would not advise this book as a starting place for reading Chesterton. (start with his smaller book, Orthodoxy) I would, however, advise reading the book sometime. He gives a short purpose for the book by saying, “The […]
C.S. Lewis & Francis Schaeffer
This is a 1998 book on current apologetic trends as foreshadowed by these two well-known writers. The authors are both from Asbury Theological Seminary, which shows through the critique especially in the chapter on Inerrancy. I think, however, that the book is a fair evaluation of the views of these two prolific writers. The value […]
Grace Unknown
This is the third book I have read by Sproul in the last year in which he defends the Reformed Faith, specifically those doctrines related to salvation by faith. These books are a valuable reference in the current controversy over Catholic faith and evangelical faith. It is disappointing when Sproul refers to Fundamentalism as “unscholarly […]
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 […]