Book Synopsis:
Renowned scholar William Lane Craig offers a readable, rich training manual for defending the Christian faith.
This concise guide is filled with illustrations, sidebars, and memorizable steps to help Christians stand their ground and defend their faith with reason and precision. In his engaging style, Dr. Craig offers four arguments for God’s existence, defends the historicity of Jesus’ personal claims and resurrection, addresses the problem of suffering, and shows why religious relativism doesn’t work. Along the way, he shares his story of following God’s call in his own life.
This one-stop, how-to-defend-your-faith manual will equip Christians to advance faith conversations deliberately, applying straightforward, cool-headed arguments. They will discover not just what they believe, but why they believe—and how being on guard with the truth has the power to change lives forever.
My Review:
3.75/5 stars. This book took me a long time to finish. This was partly because my library loan expired and someone else was waiting, so I couldn't get it back right away. The other reason is that I struggled to get through it. It was very different from every other apologetics book I've ever read. It was way more philosophical and metaphysical which, I'll be honest, I really didn't understand much. The unique perspective makes sense, given William Lane Craig's background as a philosopher, but it wasn't for me. The parts that did make sense to me were great, but a lot of it was pretty confusing.
I appreciated how the first chapter talked about why apologetics and being able to defend your faith even matters in the first place. One of the reasons I got into apologetics was because I didn't want to make Christianity look bad or untrue because I couldn't give an adequate answer, so I definitely understand the importance of studying it.
Like I mentioned above, the majority of the content in this book was foreign to me. I really struggled with it. A lot of the time I was reading the words to get to the next words, not because I knew what they were saying. I could get the gist, and the summaries at the end of each chapter helped, but William Lane Craig's discussions about why anything exists at all and why the universe began were new to me and not my area of interest at all.
The chapters I liked the most and could understand the most were the one about morality and the ones about the historical evidence for Jesus. Those chapters felt the most similar to other apologetics book I've read. I also enjoyed the two "personal interludes", as he called them, where he shared his own testimony and background.
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