Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Faith, Reason, and Doubt
2 Truth, Knowledge, and Relativism
3 Knowledge: Some Important Components
4 Knowledge: Testing Worldviews
5 Worldviews in Trouble
6 The Existence of God
7 God and Evil
8 Miracles: Liability and Asset
9 Back to the Past
10 The New Testament and History
11 Who Is Jesus?
12 From Christ to Christianity
13 Truth and Our Culture
Index
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Winfried Corduan, Reasonable Faith (Nashville: Broadman-Holman, 1993).
No Doubt About It (Nashville: Broadman-Holman, 1997).
These are respectively the hardback and paperback
versions of the same
book. Reasonable Faith, the hardback, is now out
of print, but No Doubt About It is the identical
book--right down to the typos--at half the price.
After teaching apologetics for quite a few years, the
opportunity
arose for me to write a textbook in the area. Before I
wrote that book, I was in a quandary for a text in
apologetics that was at a level above totally popular
books, but did not seemingly require at least a minor in
philosophy. Furthermore, neither William Lane Craig's
nor J. P. Moreland's books address the problem of evil
(how can you do apologetics without that?). But the main
point is that a course in apologetics is required of all
students at Taylor University regardless of their major,
and so I needed a book that would be accessible to
students for whom it would possibly the first (and
maybe even last) exposure to philosophy.
Each chapter begins with a series of vignettes which
provide a
practical introduction to the topic of that chapter.
After I
address the issues of the chapter, I then go back and
show how my
conclusions would answer the opening vignettes.
My approach is theistic and evidentialist.
I am grateful to all the various colleagues across the
country who have adopted this book as their textbook in
apologetics courses.
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