Contending with Christianity's critics : answering new atheists & other objectors / [print]
edited by Paul Copan.
- Nashville, Tennesee : B and H Academic, (c)2009.
- viii, 293 pages ; 23 cm
PART 1: THE EXISTENCE OF GOD -- Dawkins's delusion/ At home in the multiverse? / James Daniel Sinclair -- Confronting naturalism : the argument from reason/ Belief in God : a trick of our brain? / Michael J. Murray -- Moral poverty of evolutionary naturalism/ Dawkins's best argument against God's existence/ William Lane Craig -- Victor Reppert -- Mark D. Linville -- Gregory E. Ganssle PART 2: THE JESUS OF HISTORY -- Criteria for the Gospels' authenticity/ Jesus the seer/ The Resurrection of Jesus time line/ How scholars fabricate Jesus/ How badly did the early scribes corrupt the New Testament? : an examination of Bart Ehrman's claims/ Who did Jesus think he was? / Michael J. Wilkins Robert H. Stein -- Ben Witherington III -- Gary R. Habermas -- Craig A . Evans -- Daniel B. Wallace -- PART 3: THE COHERENCE OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE -- The coherence of theism/ Is the Trinity a logical blunder? : God as three and one/ Did God become a Jew? : a defense of the incarnation/ Dostoyevsky, Woody Allen, and the doctrine of penal substitution/ Hell : getting what's good my own way/ What does God know? : the problems of open theism/ Charles Taliaferro and Elsa J. Marty -- Paul Copan -- Paul Copan -- Steve L. Porter -- Stewart Goetz -- David P. Hunt.
This second book of modern Christian apologetics from the Evangelical Philosophical Society addresses challenges made by noted New Atheists like Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) and other contemporary critics of Christianity concerning belief in God, the historical Jesus, and Christianity's doctrinal coherence. Among the eighteen contributors are Craig A. Evans ("How Scholars Fabricate Jesus"), Gary R. Habermas ("The Resurrection of Jesus Time line"), Daniel Wallace ("How badly Did the Early Scribes Corrupt the New Testament? - An Examination of Bart Ehrman's Claims"), and Ben Witherington ("Jesus the Seer"). ~ back of book.