A very good and concrete introduction to apologetics

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	• No Doubt About It: The Case for Christianity Winfred Corduan B&H Academic, 1997 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Covers a lot of ground without going indepth.

If you have never read any books on apologetics, this would be a good book to start with. If you are already familiar with, or enjoy the depth to books, such as those by Dallas Willard, Gregory Boyd, or CS Lewis, you may find find this book a bit dissapointing with it's covering-a-lot-of-ground, but only scratching-the-surface style.

A very good and concrete introduction to apologetics

This book is very suited as an introduction to apologetics, and for group study. Each chapter is preceeded by some conversations (called "vignettes") the author had with different persons on the subject of the chapter. At the end of the chapter, one finds some answers/reflexions about the vignettes of the chapter, as well as some questions to master the content of the chapter and for further reflexions, and also a short bibliography for further exploration.

I find most of the chapters very good, except the presentation of the cosmological and teleological arguments.

Ccontents
1 Faith, reason and doubt
2 Truth, knowledge and relativism
3 Knowledge: some important components
4 Knowledge: testing worldviews
5 Wordlviews 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
Names Index
Scripture Index
Subject Index

A much more detailed (and somewhat less formally presented) introduction to Apologetics can be found in "When skeptics ask" by Norman Geisler. For a more philosophical introduction, see "Reason and Faith" by Ronald Nash. For those who want more, I can recommend all the books of Geisler, James Moreland, William Craig, Douglas Geivett, Gary Habermas.

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Well Written and Well Thought Out

This is a great beginning apologetics work! Through the use of solid logic skills, basic facts and modern day vignettes, Courduan offers practical and helpful arguments for the Christian faith. Unlike many apologetics book, NO DOUBT ABOUT It is written in a very understandable fashion. Corduan does not talk over the head of his readers but still is true to the academic difficulty of answering a skeptics questions. Written at a level that even late high school aged students can understand, this book is a great gift for students at graduation. In a remarkable way, Corduan blends academia with interesting practicality to produce a wonderful work of apologetics.

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A Solid Apologetics Text

This book is an excellent beginning work on apologetics. Corduan is a lucid communicator and author. This work is a prime example of how Corduan can take certain issues and bring them home for a broad audience. He covers all the essential elements of the Christian faith, and he also deals with the issue of truth; which is vital in this age of postmodernism. Moreover, Corduan covers the issues of worldviews, miracles, God and evil, the New Testament and History, the existence of God, and the importance of history, esp. as it pertains to Scripture. As you can see, Corduan is quite thorough in this work, and this makes for a great intro to apologetics text. Too bad this book has had such a short shelf life; but then again most good books do for some strange reason. Get Amazon to track this one down for you, it is worth the search.

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No Doubt About It combines classical Christian apologetics and contemporary philosophy to frame an invitation to intellectual and spiritual growth. The author's thesis is that doubts and quandaries serve to strengthen faith, not weaken it.

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