Defending Your Faith – Additional Readings

Defending Your Faith – Additional Readings for Probe’s course on basic apologetics

Issue 1 – The Christian Mind

• The Christian Mind: www.probe.org/the-christian-mind
• Hindrances of the Mind: www.probe.org/hindrances-of-the-mind-the-scandal-of-evangelical-thinking
• Faith and Reason: www.probe.org/faith-and-reason

Issue 2 – Apologetics & Evangelism

• The Apologetics of Jesus: www.probe.org/the-apologetics-of-jesus
• The Apologetics of Peter: www.probe.org/the-apologetics-of-peter
• The Relevance of Christianity: www.probe.org/the-relevance-of-christianity-an-apologetic
• What Constitutes Good Proof? (Ronald Nash) Access article by clicking here.

Issue 3 – Worldviews

• Why Worldviews: www.probe.org/why-worldview
• Worldviews Part 2: www.probe.org/worldviews-part-2
• Worldviews Through History: www.probe.org/worldviews-through-history
• How Do You Spell Truth? www.probe.org/how-do-you-spell-truth
• Truth: What Is It & Why We Can Know It: www.probe.org/truth-what-it-is-and-why-we-can-know-it

Issue 4 – Religious Pluralism

• (RW’s) Religious Pluralism: Eastern Ideas: Access article by clicking here.
• Do All Paths Lead to the Same Destination (Johnson) Access article by clicking here.
• Christianity & Religious Pluralism Access article by clicking here.

Issue 5 – Building a Case for Faith

• Witnessing to the Witnesses:Access article by clicking here.
• Understanding Our Mormon Neighbors: Access article by clicking here.
• Conversation with an Atheist: Access article by clicking here.
• You Don’t Really Understand Buddhism: Access article by clicking here.
• You Should Come to Hinduism: Access article by clicking here.

Issue 6 – Apologetics in the Church

• Is Your Church Ready? (Chapter 6) Access article by clicking here.
• Is Your Church Ready? (Chapter 7) Access article by clicking here.

Issue 7 – The Self-Revealing God

• The God Who Would Not Die (Paul Johnson) Access article by clicking here.
• Why Isn’t the Evidence Clearer? (Lou Whitworth quoting John Bloom) Access article by clicking here.
• God in the Courtroom (Stephen Evans) Access article by clicking here.
• The New Atheists: Access article by clicking here.
• There is a God! Access article by clicking here.
• Looking for God Access article by clicking here.
• Challenging the New Atheists Access article by clicking here.

Issue 8 – The Reliability of the Bible

• The New Testament Canon Access article by clicking here.
• Dealing with Problems in the Bible (Saucey) Access article by clicking here.
• Eyewitnesses to History – (Strobel) Access article by clicking here.
• The Christian Canon Access article by clicking here.
• Bart Ehrman’s Complaint Access article by clicking here.
• Did Moses Write the Pentateuch? Access article by clicking here.
• Archaeology & OT Access article by clicking here.
• Archaeology & NT Access article by clicking here.
• Jehovah’s Witnesses & the Trinity Access article by clicking here.
• Mormon Doctrine of Jesus Access article by clicking here.

Issue 9 – The Deity of Christ

• In His Hands Access article by clicking here.

Issue 10 – Miracles & the Resurrection

• Hume’s Critique of Miracles Access article by clicking here.
• Did Christianity Borrow from the Mystery Religions? Access article by clicking here.

Issue 11 – The Problem of Evil

• Why Evil? Two Theodicies (Feinberg) – Access article by clicking here.
• Can We Trust God? (Stackhouse) Access article by clicking here.
• The Value of Suffering Access article by clicking here

Issue 12 – Faith & Science

• Christian Views of Science & Earth History Access article by clicking here.