For millennia the Christian worldview has offered answers to our most profound and challenging questions, What gives life meaning? Is there hope? In this systematic text, Douglas Groothuis skillfully employs a cumulative case for the Christian faith, allowing several lines of argumentation and evidence to converge. This work masterfully addresses what matters most.

"Christian Apologetics is a full-scale defense of the Christian faith that is accessible, relevant and wise. This book not only reflects the work of a seasoned apologist; it is also written with passion and conviction. I heartily recommend it!" PAUL COPAN, Palm Beach Atlantic University

"Christian Apologetics is an outstanding book that I wholeheartedly endorse. It is one of the most thorough, insightful and well-written apologetics books I have read in a long time. Douglas Groothuis has the rare ability to write in a way that is understandable to the nonspecialist and yet rigorous enough to challenge the apologetic connoisseur. I wish every Christian would read this book carefully and then pass it on to a skeptic for discussion, interaction and dialogue." SEAN McDOWELL, author of Apologetics for a New Generation

"Groothuis is a leading evangelical thinker and Christian Apologetics is a monumental result of decades of study and reflection. Breathtaking in scope and clear in style, this book is now the go-to text in Christian apologetics. I know of nothing like it, and I enthusiastically recommend it to all who want to learn to give an answer for the hope that is within them." J. P. MORELAND, author of The God Question

"Douglas Groothuis does Christian apologetics the way it needs to be done, situating apologetics within a Christian worldview and answering the troubling questions that people are actually asking-questions to which they need answers if faith is going to be a live option. His book draws on many years of teaching and writing about apologetics, distilling the most effective arguments in defense of the Christian faith."
WILLIAM A. DEMBSKI, author of The End of Christianity

DOUGLAS GROOTHUIS (Ph.D., philosophy. University of Oregon) is professor of philosophy at Denver Seminary and teaches philosophy at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He is the author often books, including Truth Decay, Unmasking the New Age, On Jesus, On Pascal and In Defense of Natural Theology (coeditor and contributor). He has published two dozen academic articles in journals such as Religious Studies, Think, Inquiry, Sophia and Philosophia Christi.

Contents
Acknowledgments 9
PART ONE: APOLOGETIC PRELIMINARIES
1 Introduction\ Hope, Despair and Knowing Reality 15
2 The Biblical Basis for Apologetics 23
3 Apologetic Method: Evaluating Worldviews 45
4 The Christian Worldview 73
5 Distortions of the Christian Worldview — Or the God I Don’t Believe In 95
6 Truth Defined and Defended 117
7 Why Truth Matters Most: Searchingfor Truth in Postmodern Times 139
8 Faith, Risk and Rationality: The Prudential Incentives to Christian Faith 155
PART TWO: THE CASE FOR CHRISTIAN THEISM
9 In Defense of Theistic Arguments 171
10 The Ontological Argument 185
11 Cosmological Arguments: A Cause for the Cosmos 207
12 The Design Argument: Cosmic Fine-Tuning 240
13 Origins, Design and Darwinism 266
14 Evidence for Intelligent Design 297
15 The Moral Argument for God 330
16 The Argument from Religious Experience 364
17 The Uniqueness of Humanity: Consciousness and Cognition 389
18 Deposed Royalty: Pascal’s Anthropological Argument 418
19 Jesus of Nazareth: How Historians Can Know Him and Why It Matters, BY CRAIG L. BLOMBERG 438
20 The Claims, Credentials and Achievements of Jesus Christ 475
21 Defending the Incarnation 527
22 The Resurrection of Jesus 527
PART THREE: OBJECTIONS TO CHRISTIAN THEISM
23 Religious Pluralism: Many Religions, One Truth 567
24 Apologetics and the Challenge of Islam 599
25 The Problem of Evil: Dead Ends and the Christian Answer 614
26 Conclusion: Take It to the Streets 647
Appendix 1 Hell on Trial 653
Appendix 2 Apologetic Issues in the Old Testament, BY RICHARD S. HESS 662
Glossary 677
Bibliography 680
Name Index 732
Subject Index 739
Scripture Index 748