Defending Your Faith

Apologetic Primer Explains How Reason Supports Christianity's Claims

From the classroom to mainstream media, Christians regularly find their fundamental beliefs discounted by opponents who consider faith to be incompatible with reason. Faith is viewed as subjective, emotional, and a crutch for those who find the real world too hard. The late R. C. Sproul, however, claims faith reveals just how rational Christianity truly is.

This audiobook surveys the history and fundamentals of apologetics to demonstrate how reason and scientific inquiry actually support Christianity's claims—thus equipping believers to defend the existence of God and the Bible's authority. The defense of the faith is not a luxury or an intellectual vanity. It is a task appointed by God to give reason to your eternal hope as you bear witness before the world.

A Logical and Biblical Defense: Sets forth the basic truth claims of Christianity to show the rationality of the Christian faith Comprehensive: Deals with arguments from philosophy, science, reason, logic, and history Ideal for New and Seasoned Believers Alike: Helps Christians know what they believe and why they believe it Great Resource for Individual, Small Group, or Classroom Study

1. Opening Credits
2. Introduction
3. Section 1: The Apologetic Task
4. Chapter 1: The Task of Apologetics
5. Chapter 2: Apologetics and Saving Faith
6. Section 2: The Four Essential Principles of Knowledge
7. Chapter 3: Introducing the Four Principles
8. Chapter 4: The Law of Noncontradiction
9. Chapter 5: Contradiction, Paradox, and Mystery
10. Chapter 6: The Law of Causality
11. Chapter 7: Hume's Critique of Causality and the Basic Reliability of Sense Perception
12. Chapter 8: Logical Positivism and Its Ghosts Today: Analogical Use of Language
13. Section 3: Natural Reason and Faith
14. Chapter 9: Natural Theology and Science
15. Chapter 10: Aquinas and Kant
16. Section 4: The Case for God's Existence: Four Possibilities
17. Chapter 11: Illusion
18. Chapter 12: Self-Creation
19. Chapter 13: Creation by Chance
20. Chapter 14: A Self-Existent Being
21. Chapter 15: A Self-Existent Universe
22. Section 5: God and the Philosophers
23. Chapter 16: The God of the Philosophers and the God of the Bible
24. Chapter 17: Kant's Moral Argument
25. Chapter 18: The Nihilists
26. Chapter 19: The Psychology of Atheism
27. Section 6: The Case for Biblical Authority
28. Chapter 20: The Authority of the Bible
29. Chapter 21: Jesus's Teaching About Scripture
30. Chapter 22: The Trustworthiness of the Teaching of Jesus
31. Chapter 23: The Testimony of the Holy Spirit
32. Conclusion
33. Closing Credits