I’m a fan of Professor Peter Kreeft’s, put this book on my Christmas list, and (thanks, kids!) received it. I read it right away, and it’s short (93 pages) and sweet. And I’m happy to begin a Happy New Year for readers with a work that focuses on a happy topic. The first part of … [Read more…]
This is a good book, and an unusual one. Its core idea is how to present a rather specific apologetic argument. The first part lays out that argument in some detail, and the remainder focuses principally on responding to various objections. Woven in throughout are pointers on effective, person-to-person evangelism. Hence the book’s epigraph: “Be … [Read more…]
I (and others) frequently note that one argument supporting the veracity of the Bible is that it contains much that is unflattering to the people who supposedly made it up. The Jews in the Old Testament are complaining and ungrateful backsliders, the apostles in the New Testament are uncomprehending and cowardly, to give just two … [Read more…]
The basic theme of this interesting book is that, in asking why there are differences in the four accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus that we find in the Gospels, one ought to consider, not how biographies are written now, but how biographies were written then — and that, if one does that, … [Read more…]
I’m a Lee Strobel fan, and would put his trilogy of The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, and The Case for a Creator near the top of my apologetics list. The book that is the subject of this post follows the same template as his others: The author makes an intelligent division of … [Read more…]
I’m a Lee Strobel fan, and would put his trilogy of The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, and The Case for a Creator near the top of my apologetics list. His book that is the subject of this post follows the same template as his others: The author makes an intelligent division of … [Read more…]
So, on this first day of September, consider this challenge, gentle reader: As you sit there, pick up any object near to hand, and see if it does not contain in it something to strike wonder in you. A wooden pencil? Consider then a tree. Consider also how complicated the manufacture of a pencil is. … [Read more…]
The Lord’s Prayer begins, “Our Father, who art in Heaven: Thy name be hallowed, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,” and ends, “For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.” How do Thy name/hallowed, Thy kingdom/come, and Thy will/be done fit together? Next, how do kingdom, power, and glory … [Read more…]
I read once — maybe in a biography of T.E. Lawrence — that it’s no accident that the three great monotheistic religions were born in or near deserts, since that landscape’s sky-filled starkness underscores human limitations and draws one’s thoughts to the eternal, or something like that. A beach does that even more, since the … [Read more…]
In reading this book I was arrested almost at once by this passage (xvi, emphasis added, footnote omitted): … With the aim of restoring the Word of God to the life of the church, Luther used every legitimate means to make known the truths of Scripture. His strategies included writing books, tracts, pamphlets, and letters, … [Read more…]