In Defence of Christianity

Abstract

Abstract This short book of Christian apologetics attempts to show the main reasons that can be advanced in support of the Christian faith. These reasons do not constitute the foundations of Christianity, but are more like buttresses supporting a faith position already held or considered hypothetically. They fall into three groups: appeals to facts and ideas available to anyone, irrespective of time or place; appeals to particular events and strands in human history; and appeals to the inner rationale of developed Christian doctrine. The book stresses the ways in which the first group of appeals (traditionally called natural theology) and the other two groups (traditionally called revealed theology) are equally rational, and indeed, reinforce each other’s plausibility. All of them are open to critical scrutiny, and to discussion by people of any faith or none. Nevertheless, the overall aim of the book is apologetic, that is to say, the rational defence and commendation of the Christian faith as offering the best explanation of the world in which people find themselves, the most telling diagnosis of the human predicament, and the most plausible account of where God’s creation is heading.

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