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Defending Your Faith: An Introduction to Apologetics
Binding: Paperback
Author: R. C. Sproul
Manufacturer: Crossway Books
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Average Rating: 4.0
Total Customer Reviews: 13
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Sproul's survey of apologetics demonstrates how rational inquiry and empirical research serve to support Christianity's claims rather than undermining them. Now in paperback. From the classroom to the mainstream media, Christians regularly find their fundamental beliefs discounted by opponents who consider faith to be incompatible with reason. But in this apologetics primer-now in paperback-respected theologian R. C. Sproul sets forth the core claims of the faith to reveal just how rational Christianity is. As Sproul surveys history's streams of thought, he uncovers the common ideologies that work against faith and affirms four principles of knowledge that are necessary for all legitimate discussion. He then demonstrates how reason and scientific inquiry serve as allies in defending two of the most strategic priorities of Christian apologetics: the existence of God and the authority of the Bible. Defending the faith is not a luxury but a task appointed by God as Christians bear witness to their faith before the world. Readers who want a convincing, biblical defense of that faith will find this book an indispensable resource for personal, small-group, or classroom use.
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Product Review Summary: Great Apologetic Book! Sproul writes a great and educational book of Christian apologetics. If you are interested in religion, philosophy, or especially Christianity in particular, you should read this book!
Product Review Summary: a very helpful apologetics text Defending Your Faith is an amazingly well written book, as is practically every Sproul book that I've ever read.
R.C. Sproul is known for his teaching and his ability to take a complex subject and present it in a way that can be more easily understood. He has certainly done this with Defending Your Faith.
Though Defending Your Faith is subtitled "An Introduction to Apologetics" it is much more than that. It is a foundation for apologetics. The reasoning, the information, and the responses given to various arguments against Christian Theism are among the most helpful that I have ever read.
This is not some dry, dreary tome that is written for academics, but is a book written to help the common man learn to better defend his faith and gain greater confidence in the fact that his faith is indeed reasonable and credible.
While there are many things dealt with in this book such as the task of apologetics, the relationship of apologetics to saving faith, natural theology, the case for God's existence, the origins of the world, philosophers and God, and Biblical authority, there were a few that truly stuck with me. I was especially gratified to find Sproul spending much time on the law of noncontradiction. One area in which I truly was blessed to learn and grow was the arguments Sproul gave for causality and for God being the uncaused Cause. Going even further and building on that same argument, Sproul later spoke of God as the self-existent God and explained why that is a much more credible belief than the belief in a self-existent universe.
Sproul also reaches back in time to present the arguments of apologists of days gone by. He repackages their ideas to make them palatable to today's reader.
I cannot praise Sproul enough for writing this book and for doing such a good job of it.
Product Review Summary: Weak at best I really tried to give this one a chance....but it is so flawed. Statements like "a God must exist" but then never presenting evidence of why that is....quoting the bible to explain "logical reasoning" as to why God exists is circular reasoning. And that is the theme of this book, circular reasoning, wrapped in hyperbole wrapping paper. I guess for the typical not so learned believer it will be a bunch of double talk that you already believe. But for anyone out there honestly looking for answers to the mystery of life.....well this book is a total waste of time. If you are a christian, with no background in philosophy, agnosticism, critical historical bible study....then you may find it halfway informative, but if you actually know when and by whom the bible was written. Well you will find yourself saying "are you kidding me?" it is a sophomoric attempt at sounding like a physicist instead of a fundamentalist preacher, which is his true purpose. Be a preacher, and leave philosophy and science to the open minded RC you disappoint.
Product Review Summary: Excellent philosophic arguments in favor of God. R.C. Sproul is a philosopher and a Christian. This work is a good review of the philosophic support in favor of God. There is less to do with Christianity, and more with God in general.
Product Review Summary: Excellent discourse on why to believe Starting from the ground up, Sproul does an excellent job of walking anyone (Christian, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, etc.) through the reasonable and logical framework of why to believe in anything, and specifically, why the Christian worldview fits with what true philosophy and the natural revelation all around us says about God.
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