The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict: Evidence I & II Fully Updated in One Volume To Answer The Questions Challenging Christians in the 21st Century

Type
Book
ISBN 10
0785242198 
ISBN 13
9780785242192 
LCCN
99047181 
OCLC
42413383 
Category
Theology ( 神學研究 )  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1999 
Pages
760 
Subject
BT1102 
Abstract
Evidence I & II-The classic defense of the faith: Now fully updated to answer the questions challenging evangelical faith today. The New Evidence maintains its classic defense of the faith yet addresses new issues. The New Evidence is destined to equip believers with a ready defense for the next decade and beyond."--Publisher description.Is the Bible historically reliable? Is there credible evidence of Chrst's claim to be God? Will Christianity stand up before 21st century critics? Christians today face growing challenges to show that their faith is both relevant and credible. Josh McDowell's New Evidence That Demands a Verdict combines the two original best-selling volumes into one, maintaining their classic defense of the faith, yet answering new questions posed by today's culture 
Description
User's guide -- Explanation of general format -- He changed my life -- Introduction -- Part one : The case for the Bible. The uniqueness of the Bible -- How we got the Bible -- Is the New Testament historically reliable? -- Is the Old Testament historically reliable? -- Part two : The case for Jesus. Jesus, a man of history -- If Jesus wasn't God, he deserves an Oscar -- Significance of deity : the trilemma : Lord, liar, or lunatic? -- Support of deity : Old Testament prophecies fulfilled in Jesus Christ -- Support of deity : the resurrection : hoax or history? -- Support of deity : the great proposition -- Part three : The case for and against Christianity. Is the Bible from God? -- The presupposition of anti-supernaturalism -- Archaeology and biblical criticism -- Introduction to the documentary hypothesis -- Introduction to biblical criticism -- Introduction to the Pentateuch -- Development of the documentary hypothesis -- Ground rules -- Documentary presuppositions -- Consequences of radical higher criticism -- Evidence for Mosaic authorship -- The phenomenon of divine names -- The repetition of accounts and alleged contradictions -- Incongruities -- Internal diversity -- Conclusion to the documentary hypothesis -- Introduction to New Testament form criticism -- Historical skepticism -- Jesus under fire -- Conclusion to form criticism -- Modern theology and biblical criticism / C.S. Lewis -- Part four : Truth or consequences. Personal note from the author -- The nature of truth -- The knowability of truth -- Answering postmodernism -- Answering skepticism -- Answering agnosticism -- Answering mysticism -- Certainty vs. certitude -- Defending miracles -- Is history knowable? -- Biographical sketches of selected authors -- The four spiritual laws. 
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