Last year, Steve Hays and I put together an e-book of interviews with a number of Christian scholars about how they came to faith in Christ and how they deal with various intellectual challenges to the Christian faith. (The project was Steve’s brainchild and he flattered me into assisting him by inviting me to contribute to it; I agreed on condition that he also answer his own questions!) Anyway, we’ve just uploaded a revised edition of the book. This version adds answers recently received from Craig Keener.
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[...] Estimate of Preaching? Christian Academics Share Personal Experience April 21, 2009 This is interesting. A free e-book edited by Steve Hayes and James Anderson: “Love the Lord with [...]
[...] This is interesting. A free e-book edited by Steve Hayes and James Anderson: “Love the Lord with Heart and Mind.” It chronicling the answers of Christian intellectuals (including Darrell Bock, John Frame and Douglas Groothuis) to the following questions. 1. Have you been a Christian from childhood? 2. Did you convert to the faith? If so, please describe your conversion experience. 3. Why do you believe in the existence of God? 4. Why do you believe in the inspiration of the Bible? 5. How do you deal with Bible criticism? 6. How do you deal with scientific objections to the faith? 7. What other challenges to the faith would you like to comment on? 8. At this stage of your spiritual journey, would you now give different reasons for your faith than when you began your pilgrimage? 9. Looking back over your life as a Christian, how would you say that your faith has evolved over time? How, if at all, does your lived-in faith differ from when you were younger? 10. Unbelievers often point to the elusiveness of God. In your personal experience, including your experience with other Christians, can you point to any examples of God’s providential presence? 11. Since you’ve been a Christian, have you undergone a crisis of faith? If so, how did you work through it? 12. In your observation, why are most unbelievers unbelieving? 13. In your experience, what’s the best way to witness to unbelievers? 14. Christian apologetics tends to settle into certain stereotypical arguments and formulaic emphases. Do you think there are some neglected areas in how apologetics is generally done today? 15. What do Christian parents, pastors, seminary and/or college professors most need to teach our young people to prepare them for the walk of faith? 16. What devotional or apologetic reading would you recommend for further study? [...]