Christian Apologetics and Philosophy

An Introduction

Paul Herrick (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

254 Seiten

2024
University of Notre Dame Press (Verlag)
978-0-268-20893-6 (ISBN)

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A highly readable introduction to Christian apologetics that joins contemporary analytic philosophy with modern biblical scholarship.

In this book, Paul Herrick presents the basics of classical Christian apologetics in the form of an inference to the best explanation argument that builds from the book’s first chapter to its last. Drawing on contemporary philosophy, logic, and biblical scholarship, Herrick incorporates thoughts from Socrates, Plato, Thomas Aquinas, and C. S. Lewis, as well as scholars such as William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland, Richard Swinburne, and Craig Blomberg, to present a multifaceted argument for the Christian faith. With sections on the Socratic method, the Christian examination of conscience, the Big Bang, miracles, the historical reliability of the New Testament, the resurrection of Christ, and more, this book promises to be useful intellectually and spiritually for seekers, doubters, and those already in the faith.

Paul Herrick is professor of philosophy at Shoreline Community College. He is the author of multiple textbooks in formal logic, critical thinking, and philosophy, including The Many Worlds of Logic, Think with Socrates, and Philosophy, Reasoned Belief, and Faith (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022).

1. What is Apologetics?

Interlude 1. The Socratic Method and the Christian Examination of Conscience

2. Does God Exist? Part 1

3. Does God Exist? Part 2

Interlude 2. Christianity’s Contributions to World Culture

4. Why Would God Permit Evil?

5. Hasn’t Science Proved That Life after Death Is Impossible?

6. Isn’t it Illogical to Believe That a Miracle Occurred?

7. Is the New Testament Historically Reliable?

8. Did Jesus Christ Rise Miraculously from the Dead?

9. Reason to the Best Explanation

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2024
Verlagsort	Notre Dame IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-268-20893-X / 026820893X
ISBN-13	978-0-268-20893-6 / 9780268208936
Zustand	Neuware