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Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion
Written by Rebecca McLaughlin
Narrated by Rebecca McLaughlin
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Religion's decline in the modern world turns out to be a myth.
Christianity is the most widespread global belief system, and promises to remain so well into the future. But for many educated westerners, biblical Christianity is a dangerous idea-challenging some of their deepest beliefs.
Channeling state-of-the-art research, personal stories, and careful biblical study, Confronting Christianity explores twelve questions that keep many of us from considering faith in Christ. Look more closely, McLaughlin argues, and the reality of suffering, the complexity of sexuality, the desire for diversity, the success of science, and other seeming roadblocks to faith become signposts. Jesus becomes not a relic from the ancient world, but our modern world's best hope.
Christianity is the most widespread global belief system, and promises to remain so well into the future. But for many educated westerners, biblical Christianity is a dangerous idea-challenging some of their deepest beliefs.
Channeling state-of-the-art research, personal stories, and careful biblical study, Confronting Christianity explores twelve questions that keep many of us from considering faith in Christ. Look more closely, McLaughlin argues, and the reality of suffering, the complexity of sexuality, the desire for diversity, the success of science, and other seeming roadblocks to faith become signposts. Jesus becomes not a relic from the ancient world, but our modern world's best hope.
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Rebecca McLaughlin
Rebecca McLaughlin (PhD, Cambridge University) is the author of Confronting Christianity, named Christianity Today’s 2020 Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year. Her subsequent works include 10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) about Christianity; The Secular Creed; and Jesus through the Eyes of Women.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Please gift this book to anyone that is in a state of questioning.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome!! Nice to receive some great wisdom about tough subjects
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book is everywhere. The authors talks about there being 12 questions being asked about Christianity and each chapter is a question. However, the questions being asked at the beginning of the chapter never get answered. Instead, the author wanders off into her faith.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5By far one of the most compelling and thought provoking books about the claims of Christianity and its truth. Thank you, Rebecca, for your honesty and thoroughness!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An amazing resource for the Kingdom and Witness of Jesus. Depth, Truth, and Raw honesty infused with apologetics and academia, a tidbit of grace for every Christian to read. I will take a group of people through this book. Well done.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It’s a hard look at honest questions people have about Christianity & the answers are logical, well thought out and beautifully true. Highly recommend!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A careful, comprehensive look at some of the most common objections to Christianity found in the secular age. I’m grateful for Rebecca’s gracious and strong argument for the beauty truthfulness of Christ and his gospel found in his word. A must read for the believer, skeptic, and agnostic who truly want to engage with thoughtful, robust Christianity.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome book. It deals with the questions we all think about but don’t like to talk about. It gives good and honest answers. Everyone should read this.