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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 239 EAN: 9780310224761 ISBN: 0310224764 Label: Zondervan Manufacturer: Zondervan Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: February 01, 2000 Publisher: Zondervan Studio: Zondervan Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A multiple-view book on apologetic methods, this material deals with a very relevant topic in the midst of a changing culture. Its primary contributors are: William Lane Craig, Gary R. Habermas, Paul D. Feinberg, John M. Frame, and Kelly James Clark. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - How Should We Defend Our Faith?The Apostle Peter exhorts Christians to "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have" (1 Peter 3:15). Believers recognize that God calls us the defense of our faith--that is, to the practice of apologetics. But how do we defend our faith? How do we give an answer? Throughout church history, Christians have approached the task of apologetics in a variety of ways. Steven Cowan has brought together proponents of five different views to ... Read More Rating: - A Practical Introductory Work for Students of ApologeticsThis book was useful as a student reference to begin Christian Apologetic studies, but it was far from "putting 5 prominent views under the microscope" per the back cover. The Dialogue is accessible with academic terms kept to a minimum. The various authors use of foot notes is frequent enough to be beneficial and adequate for extended research into the specific areas of interest beyond the essays. To the publisher, I commend the format, but recommend the authors be given more pages to ... Read More Rating: - Useful but datedThis book is useful in that it presents a catalogue of methodologies that have been used in apologetics in the not so distant past. It also indicates (unwittingly) the need for a new style of apologetics for the present day. Evidentialists use a one step approach, Classical Apologists use a two-step method. What is needed for today's culture is a ballet. Classical Christian Apologists usually employ a two-step approach in their methodology. The first step is to establish the claim ... Read More Rating:  - We're To Contend For The Faith (Jude 3) -- Here Are 5 Ways HowApologetics is an extremely important and yet overlooked aspect of Christianity. We are ready to give an answer to every man for the hope that is in us (1 Pet. 3:15), and to contend earnestly for the faith (Jude 3). But how do we do this? Leave it to human beings to come up with organized systems to approach this, and this book introduces us to five different styles to accomplish this. Let me explain the five views as I would define them: 1. Classical, represented by William ... Read More Rating: - A good taste, but not a comprehensive introduction to REThe text gives a good taste of the differences between these schools of apologetics. Some reviewers have shortchanged Clark's Reformed epistemology position, referring to it as "weak" and "timid." For those who really want to understand RE and have no prior exposure to analytic philosophy (e.g., Wittgenstein, Thomas Reid, etc.), I'd advise supplementing Clark's essay with something written by Alvin Plantinga or Nicholas Wolterstorff. RE operates with an entirely different epistemology from that relied ... Read More 
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