Reasonable Response by Craig, William Lane -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Praise for A Reasonable Response Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: A Meditation on the Practice and Ministry of Answering Questions

Why This Book? On the Intent and Scope of This Book Why These Questions? On the Experience of Reading These “Reasonable Responses” An Exercise in Using This Book On the Practice and Ministry of Answering Questions On a Proper “Home” for Asking Questions The Good of Questions, Connecting Us with Reality Questions as Integral to Discipleship Questions and Dealing with Doubt Questions and the Spiritual Discipline of Study Healthy for the Local Church On How We View the Ministry of Answering People’s Questions On How to Benefit by Reading This Book

Part One: Questions on Knowing and Believing What Is Real

1. On Believing and Knowing

Does Knowledge Require Certainty? On How to Confront the Challenge of Apatheism On Common Sense, Intuitions, and the Limits of Reason How Is Belief in God Properly Basic? On Question-Begging and Appealing to the Holy Spirit

2. On Argumentation and Logic 101

3. On the Basis for Objective Morality

4. On the Authority of Scripture

Establishing the Gospels’ Reliability Is the Price of “Biblical Errancy” Too High to Pay? A Middle Knowledge Perspective on Biblical Inspiration On Inerrancy and the Resurrection

Part Two: Questions about God

1. On the Existence of God

On Whether God’s Existence Can Be Evident to Every Sincere Seeker What Does It Mean to Define “God”? What Does It Mean for God to Have Necessary Existence? Is a Maximally Great Being Possible? Naturalistic Appeal to Ignorance On Assessing the Argument from Contingency Justification of the Moral Argument’s Second Premise

2. On the Trinity

Is Trinity Monotheism Orthodox? Does Infinite Personhood Imply Pantheism? Trinity and Incarnation The Trinity and God’s Omni-Attributes

3. On Divine Attributes

Part Three: Questions about Origins and the Meaning of Life

1. On the Origins of the Universe

2. God and Time

3. On Atheism and Meaning in Life

Is Life Absurd without God? Is Unbelief Culpable? Deism and Christian Theism

4. On Theology and Science

Is Scientism Self-Refuting? On Evolutionary Theory and Theism Who Speaks for Science?

Part Four: Questions about the Afterlife and Evil

1. On the Afterlife, Hell, and the Unevangelized

On a Molinist View of Sovereignty, Hell, and Salvation Does Creation Benefit the Lost? Can People in Heaven Sin? Do the Damned in Hell Accrue Further Punishment? Molinism, the Unevangelized, and Cultural Chauvinism

2. On the Problem of Evil

Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Evil The Problem of Evil Once More Was the Slaughter of the Canaanites an Act of “Divine Genocide”?

Part Five: Questions about Jesus Christ and Being His Disciple

1. On Jesus

2. On Discipleship to Jesus

On the Hard Yet Rewarding Work of Dealing with Doubts What Does It Mean to Have a Relationship with God? On Protecting Against Spiritual Failure On Facing Fear of Ridicule and Rejection

Part Six: Questions about Issues of Christian Practice

1. On Social-Moral Issues

Do We Live in a Postmodern Society? How Might We Think about a Christian Marrying a Non-Christian? Can Someone Be a “Christian Homosexual”?

2. On Practical Advice

On How to Maintain Physical Stamina On Preparing for Marriage

Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here?

A Framework for Growth The Value of Thinking and Living Vocationally

Appendix 1: Tips on Using This Book for Small Group Study Appendix 2: On Fostering Question-Asking and Answer-Seeking Environments Appendix 3: Civility Guidelines for (Online) “Third Places” Subject Index