Christian apologetics : a comprehensive case for biblical faith / Douglas Groothuis.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

PART ONE. Apologetic preliminaries. --
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 TWO. The case for Christian theism --
9. In defense of theistic arguments --
10. The ontological argument --
11. The cosmological arguments : 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 / by Craig L. Blomberg --
20. The claims, credentials and achievements of Jesus Christ --
21. Defending the Incarnation --
22. The Resurrection of Jesus.

PART THREE. Objections to Christian theism --
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 --
26. Conclusion : take it to the streets.