Defending Your Faith

R. C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, an international Christian discipleship organization located near Orlando, Florida. He was also first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel in Sanford, Florida; first president of Reformation Bible College; and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine. His radio program, Renewing Your Mind, is still broadcast daily on hundreds of radio stations around the world and can also be heard online. Sproul contributed dozens of articles to national evangelical publications, spoke at conferences, churches, colleges, and seminaries around the world, and wrote more than one hundred books, including The Holiness of God; Chosen by God; and Everyone’s a Theologian. He also served as general editor of the Reformation Study Bible.

• IntroductionSection 1: The Apologetic Task1. The Task of Apologetics2. Apologetics and Saving FaithSection 2: The Four Essential Principles of Knowledge3. Introducing the Four Principles4. The Law of Noncontradiction5. Contradiction, Paradox, and Mystery6. The Law of Causality7. Hume’s Critique of Causality and the Basic Reliability of Sense Perception8 Logical Positivism and Its Ghosts Today: Analogical Use of LanguageSection 3: Natural Reason and Faith9. Natural Theology and Science10. Aquinas and KantSection 4: The Case for God’s Existence: Four Possibilities11. Illusion12. Self-Creation13. Creation by Chance14. A Self-Existent Being15. A Self-Existent UniverseSection 5: God and the Philosophers16. The God of the Philosophers and the God of the Bible17. Kant’s Moral Argument18. The Nihilists19. The Psychology of AtheismSection 6: The Case for Biblical Authority20. The Authority of the Bible21. Jesus’ Teaching About Scripture22. The Trustworthiness of the Teaching of Jesus23. The Testimony of the Holy SpiritConclusionNotesGeneral IndexScripture Index