Mere Christian Apologetics
A defense of the Christian faith built on what every Nicene Christian already shares. Dave Armstrong takes the project C. S. Lewis began in Mere Christianity and turns it toward apologetics — the rational case for belief — drawing only on doctrines that Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants hold in common.
Most of these ten chapters were written when Armstrong was still an evangelical Protestant apologist. After he converted to Catholicism, he found nothing in them that needed to change — which is itself the book’s quiet argument. Inside: the historical case for Christianity, the manuscript and prophetic evidence for the Bible, the historicity of the Resurrection, biblical proofs for the divinity of Jesus and the Trinity, and a sober look at suffering, hell, free will, and meaning.
Written for “general Christian reading,” with nothing distinctively Catholic — and bookended by four supporting essays from Jonathan Edwards, G. K. Chesterton, John Wesley, and Charles Hodge. If you want one volume to give a doubting friend, or to sharpen your own answers, this is where to start.
Inside this book
- Why Christianity is rationally defensible
- The case for the Bible’s manuscript, prophetic, and archaeological reliability
- The historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus
- Biblical proofs for the divinity of Christ and the Trinity
- A philosophical look at morality, free will, hell, and the meaning of suffering