Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Apologetic preliminaries. Introduction : hope, despair and knowing reality ; The Biblical basis for apologetics ; Apologetic method : evaluating worldviews ; The Christian worldview ; Distortions of the Christian worldview, or, The God I don't believe in ; Truth defined and defended ; Why truth matters most : searching for truth in postmodern times ; Faith, risk and rationality : the prudential incentives to Christian faith -- The case for Christian theism. In defense of theistic arguments ; The ontological argument ; The cosmological arguments : a cause for the cosmos ; The design argument : cosmic fine-tuning ; Origins, design and Darwinism ; Evidence for intelligent design ; The moral argument for God ; The argument from religious experience ; The uniqueness of humanity : consciousness and cognition ; Deposed royalty : Pascal's anthropological argument ; Jesus of Nazareth : how historians can know him and why it matters / by Craig L. Blomberg ; The claims, credentials and achievements of Jesus Christ ; Defending the Incarnation ; The Resurrection of Jesus -- Objections to Christian theism. Religious pluralism : many religions, one truth ; Apologetics and the challenge of Islam ; The problem of evil : dead ends and the Christian answer ; Conclusion : take it to the streets.

"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"--Provided by publisher.