A series of three interviews from the “Reasonable Faith” podcast about the essay collection “Contending with Christianity’s Critics: Answering New Atheists and Other Objectors”.

Here is the first MP3 file.

Topics:

• About the editor Paul Copan, (the nicest Christian apologist)
• 1: Responding to Dawkins’ argument “Who designed the designer?”
• 2: Responding to the multiverse counter to the fine-tuning argument
• 3: The argument that rationality and consciouness require theism
• 4: The evidence for humans being hard-wired for belief in God
• 5: Responding to naturalism’s claim to rationally ground morality
• 6: Responding to Dawkins’ idea that the universe looks undesigned

Here is the second MP3 file.

Topics:

• 7: The criteria that historians use to establish historical reliability
• 8: Did Jesus think that he was the Son of Man in Daniel
• 9: A time line for the resurrection of Jesus from the early sources
• 10: Responding to scholarly distortions of the historical Jesus
• 11: Responding to Bart Ehrman’s claim that the NT text is corrupted
• 12: The evidence for Jesus divine self-understanding

Here is the third MP3 file.

Topics:

• 13: The logical coherence of the concept of God
• 14: The logical coherence of the doctrine of the Trinity
• 15: The logical coherence of the doctrine of the Incarnation
• 16: The logical coherence of the doctrine of the Atonement
• 17: The logical coherence of the doctrine of the Hell
• 18: Responding to objections to God’s knowledge of the future

I have this book, and I highly recommend this book and “Passionate Conviction: Contemporary Discourses on Christian Apologetics”, along with Lee Strobel’s “Case for…” books, as the basic building blocks of an amateur apologists’s arsenal.

You may also be interested in a new book offering a detailed response to the New Atheists, called “God Is Great, God Is Good: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable & Responsible”.