apologetics

A collection of unfinished notes and essays that the seventeenth-century author felt could be used as a defense for Christian beliefs.

Dr. Ravi Zacharias responds to Sam Harris's "Letter to a Christian Nation," refuting the claims of the newest generations of atheists and addressing the true nature of evil, the coexistence of religion and science, the foundations of morality, and other related topics.

Unapologetic is a brief, witty, personal, sharp-tongued defense of Christian belief, taking on Dawkins' 'The God delusion' and Christopher Hitchens' 'God is not great.'.

Jefferson Bethke burst into the cultural conversation in 2012 with a passionate, provocative poem titled ?Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus.? The 4-minute video literally became an overnight sensation, with 7 million YouTube views in its first 48 hours (and 23+ million in a year). The message blew up on social-media, triggering an avalanche of responses running the gamut from encouraged to enraged. In Jesus > Religion, Bethke unpacks similar contrasts that he drew in the poem?highlighting the difference between teeth gritting and grace, law and love, performance and peace, despair and hope. With refreshing candor he delves into the motivation behind his message, beginning with the unvarnished tale of his own plunge from the pinnacle of a works-based, fake-smile existence that sapped his strength and led him down a path of destructive behavior.

Explores ""the questions surrounding faith, skepticism, and the meaning of life ... as well as ... evidence for the existence of God and the truths of Christianity""--Dust jacket flap.

No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than City of God. Since medieval Europe was the cradle of today's Western civilization, this work by consequence is vital for an understanding of our world and how it came into being. St. Augustine is often regarded as the most influential Christian thinker after St. Paul, and this book is his masterpiece, a vast synthesis of religious and secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian otherworldliness was causing the decline of the Roman Empire. Augustine produced a wealth of evidence to prove that paganism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Then he proceeded to his larger theme, a cosmic interpretation of history in terms of the struggle between good and evil: the City of God in conflict with the Earthly City or the City of the Devil. This, the first serious attempt at a philosophy of history, was to have incalculable influence in forming the Western mind on the relations of church and state, and on the Christian's place in the temporal order. The original City of God contained twenty-two books and fills three regular-sized volumes. This edition has been skillfully abridged for the intelligent general reader by Vernon J. Bourke, author of Augustine's Quest of Wisdom. The heart of this monumental work is now available to a much wider audience.

The author draws on his background in the fields of science and theology to examine the role of evidence in religion.