This comprehensive apologetic case for the Christian faith covers all the major arguments (such as cosmological, design, moral, religious experience arguments) and the reliability of the Old and New Testaments along with the key claims of Jesus, especially regarding the incarnation and resurrection. Current challenges to the Christian faith (such as postmodernism, Islam, the problem of evil and religious pluralism) are also covered.  
Includes chapters by New and Old Testament scholars Craig Blomberg and Richard Hess on the reliability of the Bible.

D R Groothuis

Acknowledgments

Part One

1 Introduction

Hope, Despair and Knowing Reality

2 The Biblical Basis for Apologetics

3 Apologetic Method

Evaluating Worldviews

4 The Christian Worldview

5 Distortions of the Christian Worldview—Or the God I Don’t Believe In

6 Truth Defined and Defended

7 Why Truth Matters Most

Searching for Truth in Postmodern Times

8 Faith, Risk and Rationality

The Prudential Incentives to Christian Faith

Part 2 9 In Defense of Theistic Arguments

10 The Ontological Argument

11 Cosmological Argument

A Cause for the Cosmos

12 The Design Argument

Cosmic Fine-Tuning

13 Origins, Design and Darwinism

14 Evidence for Intelligent Design

15 The Moral Argument for God

16 The Argument from Religious Experience

17 The Uniqueness of Humanity

Consciousness and Cognition

18 Deposed Royalty

Pascal's Anthropological Argument

19 Jesus of Nazareth

How Historians Can Know Him and Why It Matters

20 The Claims, Credentials and Achievements of Jesus Christ

21 Defending the Incarnation

22 The Resurrection of Jesus

23 Religious Pluralism

Many Religions, One Truth

24 Apologetics and the Challenge of Islam

25 The Problem of Evil

Dead Ends and the Christian Answer

Conclusion

Appendix 1 Hell on Trial

Appendix 2 Apologetic Issues in the Old Testament

Glossary

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index

About the Author

Douglas Groothuis

Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism

In this systematic text, Douglas Groothuis makes a comprehensive apologetic case for Christian theism. He defends objective truth, presents the key arguments for God from natural theology and makes a case for the credibility of Jesus, the incarnation and the resurrection, assessing alternative views along the way.

The Christian worldview proposes answers to the most enduring human questions. But are those answers reliable? In this systematic text, Douglas Groothuis makes a comprehensive apologetic case for Christian theism--proceeding from a defense of objective truth to a presentation of the key arguments for God from natural theology to a case for the credibility of Jesus, the incarnation and the resurrection. Throughout, Groothuis considers alternative views and how they fare intellectually.

"Groothuis is a leading evangelical thinker and Christian Apologetics is a monumental result of decades of study and reflection. Breathtaking in scope, clear in style, this book is now the go-to text in the field. I know of nothing like it, and I enthusiastically recommend it to all who want to learn to give an answer for the hope that is within them."--J. P. Moreland, author of The God Question

'Groothuis is a leading evangelical thinker and Christian Apologetics is a monumental result of decades of study and reflection. Breathtaking in scope, clear in style, this book is now the go-to text in the field. I know of nothing like it, and I enthusiastically recommend it to all who want to learn to give an answer for the hope that is within them.'J. P. Moreland, author of The God Question

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For anyone who has undertaken a course in theology (or science) at any British university in the past fifty years, reading this book will come as a very great shock. Although the author is well-acquainted with contemporary scholarship, he refers to books, writers and arguments only to dismiss them. Little or nothing from these sources seems to have had any significant influence on Groothuis’s own thinking, including modern evolutionary science. What the sub-title of this book really means is: a comprehensive case for a very conservative understanding of Christian theology.   
Dr Groothuis is professor of philosophy at Denver Seminary in the United States. It is probably fair to say, therefore, that he represents the more conservative American evangelical position. He treats familiar apologetic themes – the question of truth in religion, arguments for the existence of God, Christian anthropology, the claims of Jesus, key Christian doctrines, the problem of evil, religious pluralism and the challenge of Islam. There is even an appendix defending one understanding of hell as eternal punishment for those who do not believe. Once you have accepted a few basic premises everything is argued cogently, economically and with clarity – and put me in mind of the style of writing of C.S.Lewis. The book is, as the sub-title promises, comprehensive and runs to some 676 pages. If you are a conservative evangelical and want a scholarly account of your position, or if you are not and want to know what Christians of this persuasion really do believe, this will be a useful addition to your library.

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