To Everyone an Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview: Essays in Honor of Norman L. Geisler

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In a society fascinated by spirituality but committed to religious pluralism, the Christian worldview faces sophisticated and aggressive opposition. A prior commitment to diversity, with its requisite openness and relativistic outlook, has meant for skeptics, critics and even many Christians that whatever Christianity is, it cannot be exclusively true or salvific. What is needed in this syncretistic era is an authoritative, comprehensive Christian response. Point by point, argument by argument, the Christian faith must be effectively presented and defended. To Everyone an Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview offers such a response. Editors Francis J. Beckwith, William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland have gathered together in this book essays covering all major aspects of apologetics, including: faith and reasonarguments for God's existencethe case for Jesus the problem of evilpostmodernismreligious pluralism and Christian exclusivismPreeminent in their respective fields, the contributors to this volume offer a solid case for the Christian worldview and a coherent defense of the Christian faith. Contents Foreword • Josh McDowell Introduction • Francis J. Beckwith Part 1: Faith, Reason and the Necessity of Apologetics Introduction • William Lane Craig 1 Knowing Christianity Is True: The Relationship Between Faith and Reason • Thomas A. Howe and Richard G. Howe 2 Defending the Defense of the Faith • Craig J. Hazen 3 Tactics: Applying Apologetics to Everyday Life • Gregory P. Koukl Part 2: God’s Existence Introduction • Francis J. Beckwith 4 The Kalam Cosmological Argument • R. Douglas Geivett 5 An Information-Theoretic Design Argument • William A. Dembski 6 A Thomistic Cosmological Argument • W. David Beck 7 A Moral Argument • Paul Copan 8 The Ontological Argument • William Lane Craig Part 3: Christ and Miracles Introduction • William Lane Craig 9 The Christology of Jesus Revisited • Ben Witherington III 10 Miracles • Winfried Corduan 11 The Case for Christ’s Resurrection • Gary R. Habermas Part 4: Philosophical and Cultural Challenges to Christian Faith Introduction • J. P. Moreland 12 The Problem of Evil • Ronald H. Nash 13 Physicalism, Naturalism and the Nature of Human Persons • J. P. Moreland 14 Facing the Challenge of Postmodernism • Douglas Groothuis 15 Legislating Morality • Michael Bauman 16 Darwin, Design and the Public Schools • Francis J. Beckwith Part 5: Religious Challenges to Christian Faith Introduction • Francis J. Beckwith 17 Religious Pluralism and Christian Exclusivism • David K. Clark 18 Eastern Thought: The Chimera of Pantheism • Ravi Zacharias 19 Mormonism • Carl Mosser and Paul Owen 20 Islam • Abdul Saleeb Conclusion • J. P. Moreland About Norman L. Geisler About the Contributors Index of Names Index of Subjects Scripture Index