Introduction The issue of Evangelicals converting to Roman Catholicism is currently a hot topic that has recently been addressed in books and online lectures. I myself have several friends from my own Evangelical background who have converted (or are considering converting) to/from Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and even Armenian Orthodoxy. While second hand explanations for these conversions range … Continue reading »
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Everything You Know About Evangelicals is Wrong
Everything You Know About Evangelicals is Wrong (Well, Almost Everything) Steve Wilkens and Don Thorsen. The stated purpose of Everything You Know About Evangelicals is Wrong is “to find an adequate and accurate definition of Evangelicalism” (p. 11). This is a loftier goal than many might guess. The method the authors propose is to “examine … Continue reading »
The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics
The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics. Ed Hinson and Ergun Caner (Eds.). Harvest house, 2008. The purpose of The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics (TPEA) is to place in the reader’s “hands a tool that will enable you to both defend your faith and answer the major objections to Christianity” (p. 11). To that end the editors … Continue reading »
Philosophica Metallica
Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery. William Erwin (Ed.). Blackwell, 2007. Intro It is not often that one can get a basic philosophical education and a heavy metal history lesson in one book. Equally unusual is a philosophy book promoted by the likes of Scott Ian, guitarist for heavy metal standard Anthrax … Continue reading »
The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus
Introduction In The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Gary Habermas and his protégé Michael Licona have produced an amazing resource for presenting and defending the historic Christian faith. Case for the Resurrection presents Habermas’s “minimal facts” approach to arguing for the resurrection of Christ – a method that avoids appealing to sources that only … Continue reading »
