On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision

On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision

by William Lane Craig
ISBN-10:
1434764885
ISBN-13:
9781434764881
Pub. Date:
03/01/2010
Publisher:
David C Cook
ISBN-10:
1434764885
ISBN-13:
9781434764881
Pub. Date:
03/01/2010
Publisher:
David C Cook
On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision

On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision

by William Lane Craig
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Overview

Renowned scholar William Lane Craig offers a readable, rich training manual for defending the Christian faith.

This concise guide is filled with illustrations, sidebars, and memorizable steps to help Christians stand their ground and defend their faith with reason and precision. In his engaging style, Dr. Craig offers four arguments for God’s existence, defends the historicity of Jesus’ personal claims and resurrection, addresses the problem of suffering, and shows why religious relativism doesn’t work. Along the way, he shares his story of following God’s call in his own life.

This one-stop, how-to-defend-your-faith manual will equip Christians to advance faith conversations deliberately, applying straightforward, cool-headed arguments. They will discover not just what they believe, but why they believe—and how being on guard with the truth has the power to change lives forever.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781434764881
Publisher: David C Cook
Publication date: 03/01/2010
Edition description: New
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 213,281
Product dimensions: 6.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at the Talbot School of Theology. A respected debater, prominent Internet presence (www.reasonablefaith.org), and the author of Reasonable Faith, Dr. Craig is one of the most influential defenders of Christianity in our day. He and his wife, Jan, have two grown children.

Table of Contents

Foreword Lee Strobel 9

1 What Is Apologetics? 13

2 What Difference Does It Make If God Exists? 29

3 Why Does Anything at All Exist? 53

Personal Interlude: A Philosopher's Journey of Faith, Part One 67

4 Why Did the Universe Begin? 73

5 Why Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life? 105

6 Can We Be Good without God? 127

7 What about Suffering? 147

Personal Interlude: A Philosopher's Journey of Faith, Part Two 177

8 Who Was Jesus? 183

9 Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? 219

10 Is Jesus the Only Way to God? 265

What People are Saying About This

J. P. Moreland

“It is hard to overstate the impact that William Lane Craig has had for the cause of Christ. He is simply the finest Christian apologist of the last half century, and his academic work justifies ranking him among the top 1 percent of practicing philosophers in the Western world. Besides that, he is a winsome ambassador for Christ, an exceptional debater, and a man with the heart of an evangelist. I know him well and can say that he lives a life of integrity and lives out what he believes. I do not know of a single thinker who has done more to raise the bar of Christian scholarship in our generation than Craig. He is one of a kind and I thank God for his life and work.”

Jim Thomas

On Guard is an excellent summation of how the Christian faith makes sense of the real world in which we all live. ‘Speaking the truth in love,’ once again William Lane Craig proves we don’t have to be abrasive to be persuasive.”

Ravi Zacharias


“William Lane Craig is arguably one of the finest Christian philosophers of our time. His knowledge and skill have placed him on platforms on every continent, engaging the most notable skeptics in dialogue and debate.”

Mark Mittelberg

“There is probably no greater defender of the Christian faith alive today than William Lane Craig. On Guard is Craig’s introduction to the wealth of information, logic, and evidence that powerfully point to the truth of our Christian beliefs. Read it to deepen your own faith and to embolden your confidence in sharing that faith with others.”

Lee Strobel

“In these pages, you’ll learn the most compelling arguments in favor of Christianity. Not only that, but you’ll also find out how to respond to the most popular objections to those arguments. You’ll discover that On Guard is solidly factual, winsomely personal, consistently practical, and ultimately convincing in its presentation of the case for Christianity.”

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