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The Apologetics Shelf - A Reason for the Hope, for Skeptics and the Church Kids Who Ask
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items For the coworker with questions, the college freshman with a philosophy professor, and the teenager who has started asking real ones: this is the defense shelf - evidence handled honestly, objections answered without shouting.
Sections
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The Case-Makers
Answering the Objections
Science, Scripture, and One Famous Conversion
The Case-Makers
A pastor, a detective, a journalist, and two debaters walk into the evidence.
Timothy Keller's Reason for God answers the seven hardest objections first, then makes the positive case - the apologetic skeptics themselves recommend. Urban, patient, and airtight where it counts.
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, (Paperback)
J. Warner Wallace was an atheist homicide detective who worked the Gospels like a cold case - evidence chains, eyewitness tests, verdict. Cold-Case Christianity is apologetics for people who trust facts and distrust sermons.
Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels, (Paperback)
Strobel's Case for a Creator walks the scientific evidence - cosmology, DNA, the cell - with the interview format that made him famous. The design argument, cross-examined.
Case for ... The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God, (Paperback)
Geisler and Turek's I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist argues the title's claim chapter by chapter - truth, God, miracles, Jesus. The debate-team standard for two decades.
I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, (Paperback)
Answering the Objections
Pain, cultural pressure, and the questions coming from inside the house.
Lewis's Problem of Pain is the honest classic on suffering - no slogans, no easy exits, and the chapter on human pain that pastors still hand out. Written before his own grief; truer after it.
The Problem of Pain, (Paperback)
Mama Bear Apologetics equips parents to spot the culture's lies and teach kids to chew and spit - discernment training disguised as a mom book. The youth-group parents' favorite.
Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies, (Paperback)
Alisa Childers's Another Gospel? tells how progressive Christianity nearly took her faith and what rebuilt it - the inside account of the deconstruction pipeline, answered from Scripture. Timely is an understatement.
Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity, (Paperback)
Koukl's Story of Reality lays out the Christian worldview as one coherent story - God, man, Jesus, cross, resurrection - the map before the arguments. The give-away copy for new skeptics and new believers alike.
The Story of Reality, (Paperback)
Science, Scripture, and One Famous Conversion
A geneticist, an atheist philosopher who changed his mind, and the Gospels' reliability.
Francis Collins ran the Human Genome Project and wrote The Language of God - a scientist's case that faith and rigorous science are allies, not enemies. The book for the lab-coat skeptic.
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, (Paperback)
There Is a God documents Antony Flew - the world's most famous atheist philosopher - changing his mind on the evidence, in his own account. Short, historic, and quietly devastating to certainty on the other side.
There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, (Paperback)
Peter Williams's Can We Trust the Gospels? is the short, scholarly answer on manuscripts, names, and undesigned coincidences - Cambridge-grade reliability in 160 pages. The one to hand the history major.
Can We Trust the Gospels?, (Paperback)