By Brian K. Morley

ISBN-10: 0830840672

ISBN-13: 9780830840670

every body believes anything. yet how and why do humans think? What counts as facts? How a lot might be assumed or believed through religion on my own?

When it involves spiritual religion, the questions develop into immediately tougher and extra vital. Over the centuries, Christians have provided diversified techniques to explaining or protecting the Christian religion, a self-discipline often called apologetics. however it has no longer continuously been transparent how diversified apologetic equipment paintings, or what each one method has to offer.

In this finished survey, Brian Morley offers an summary of Christian apologetic techniques and the way they fluctuate. He explores the historic and philosophical underpinnings of key figures and significant faculties of notion, from the presuppositionalism of Cornelius Van Til to the evidentialism of Gary Habermas. relocating past concept, Morley additionally covers apologetic software, demonstrating how every one view works out in sensible phrases.

This advisor covers the complexities of apologetics in a manner that's available to the nonspecialist. Even-handed and respectful of every apologist and their contribution, this e-book offers the reader with an impressive array of defenses for the faith.

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