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”.
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
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
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”.