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  • C. S. Lewis  Francis Schaeffer: Lessons for a New Century from the Most Influential Apologists of Our Time, By Scott R. Burson and Jerry L. Walls
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    C. S. Lewis Francis Schaeffer

    Lessons for a New Century from the Most Influential Apologists of Our Time

    by Scott R. Burson and Jerry L. Walls

    In some ways, they could not be more different: the pipe-smoking, Anglican Oxford don and the blue-collar scion of conservative Presbyterianism. But C. S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer, each in his unique way, fashioned Christian apologetics that influenced millions in their lifetimes. And the work of each continues to be read and studied today.In this book Scott Burson and Jerry Walls compare and ...

  • Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World, Edited by Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis L. Okholm
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    Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World

    Wheaton Theology Conference Series

    Edited by Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis L. Okholm

    Evangelicals are beginning to provide analyses of our postmodern society, but little has been done to suggest an effective apologetic strategy for reaching a culture that is pluralistic, consumer-oriented, and infatuated with managerial and therapeutic approaches to life. This, then, is the first book to address that vital task.In these pages some of evangelicalism's most stimulating thinkers consider ...

  • Why Should Anyone Believe Anything at All?, By James W. Sire
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    Why Should Anyone Believe Anything at All?

    by James W. Sire

    • A Christianity Today 1995 Book of the Year Finalist

    Believing. Most of us take it for granted. We just do it—whether it's trusting that the sun will come up tomorrow, that the lunch we are about to eat is not poisoned or that our religious beliefs are not ill-founded. But why should we believe any of these things? Why should anyone believe anything at all? With insight ...

  • C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason, By Victor Reppert
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    C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea

    In Defense of the Argument from Reason

    by Victor Reppert

    Who ought to hold claim to the more dangerous idea--Charles Darwin or C. S. Lewis? Daniel Dennett argued for Darwin in Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Touchstone Books, 1996). In this book Victor Reppert champions C. S. Lewis.Darwinists attemptto use science to show that our world and its inhabitants can be fully explained as the product of a mindless, purposeless system of physics and chemistry. ...

  • The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views, Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy
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    The Nature of the Atonement

    Four Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Contributions by Gregory A. Boyd, Joel B. Green, Bruce Reichenbach, and Thomas R. Schreiner
    Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy

    A long history of biblical exegesis and theological reflection has shaped our understanding of the atonement today. The more prominent highlights of this history have acquired familiar names for the household of faith: Christus Victor, penal substitutionary, subjective, and governmental.

    Recently the penal substitutionary view, and particularly its misappropriations, ...

  • Seasons of the Soul: Stages of Spiritual Development, By Bruce Demarest
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    Seasons of the Soul

    Stages of Spiritual Development

    by Bruce Demarest

    Every Christian is on an amazing journey.But the unfortunate truth is that many of us live largely detached from this fact. Days go by, but it can be hard to feel a sense of movement or growth. Sometimes, in periods of doubt and depression, we might feel stuck in the same place for months.Yet the truth remains that from the moment we give Christ control of our life, we set out on the most significant ...

  • Christianity and Western Thought: Faith and Reason in the 19th Century, By Steve Wilkens and Alan G. Padgett
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    Christianity and Western Thought

    Faith and Reason in the 19th Century

    Christianity and Western Thought Series

    by Steve Wilkens and Alan G Padgett

    Marx, Mill, Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Emerson, Darwin, Freud and Weber brought to the nineteenth century new realms of thought, which still continue to wield substantial influence today. As a result, the study of history, science, psychology,philosophy, sociology and religion have never been the same.These heirs to rationalism began to explore the full range of human experience--which became ...