<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mods xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" version="3.1" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-1.xsd">
  <titleInfo>
    <title>Reasons for faith</title>
    <subTitle>making a case for the Christian faith : essays in honor of Bob Passantino and Gretchen Passantino Coburn</subTitle>
  </titleInfo>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Passantino, Robert.</namePart>
  </name>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Coburn, Gretchen Passantino.</namePart>
  </name>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Geisler, Norman L.</namePart>
  </name>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Meister, Chad V.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1965-</namePart>
  </name>
  <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
  <genre authority="marc">bibliography</genre>
  <genre authority="marc">festschrift</genre>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">ilu</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Wheaton, Ill</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Crossway Books</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2007</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2007</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
  </originInfo>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
  </language>
  <physicalDescription>
    <form authority="marcform">print</form>
    <extent>416 p. ; 24 cm.</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <tableOfContents>What is apologetics and why do we need it? / Mark Mittelberg -- An apologetic for apologetics / Josh McDowell -- A relevant apologetic / John Warwick Montgomery -- Apologetics for the 21st century / H. Wayne House -- A biblical argument for balanced apologetics / E. Calvin Beisner -- The character of the good apologist -- Cultural and theological issues in apologetics / Norman L. Geisler -- The essentials of the christian faith / J. P. Moreland -- Postmodernism and truth / Francis J. Beckwith -- Christians, politics, and the separation of church and state / Louis Markos -- Aslan in the public square / Scott Klusendorf -- Abortion, research cloning, and beyond / Alan W. Gomes -- The value of historical theology for apologetics / Chad V. Meister -- Open theism -- Defending Christian theism / Winfried Corduan -- The cosmological argument / Miguel Angel Endara -- The design argument / Sean Choi -- The transcendental argument / R. Douglass Geivett -- God and the evidence of evil / Richard G. Howe -- The New Testament, Jesus Christ and the Da Vinci code / Gary Habermas -- The resurrection of Jesus and agnosticism -- World religious movements / Kurt Van Gorden -- Mormonism / Jim Valentine and Eric Pement -- Jehovah's Witnesses and the doctrine of salvation / Ron Rhodes -- Oneness Pentecostals and the doctrine of God / Richard G. Howe -- Witchcraft / Jon Trott -- Satanism / David J. Hesselgrave -- Reasoning faith and global missions / Douglas Groothuis -- Postscript: A manifesto for Christian apologetics.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">editors Norman L. Geisler &amp; Chad V. Meister.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Apologetics</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="lcc">BT1103 .R43 2007</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">239</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781581347876</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2007019226</identifier>
  <identifier type="uri">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007019226.html</identifier>
  <location>
    <url displayLabel="Table of contents only">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007019226.html</url>
  </location>
  <recordInfo>
    <recordContentSource authority="marcorg">DLC</recordContentSource>
    <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">070508</recordCreationDate>
    <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260220121852.0</recordChangeDate>
    <recordIdentifier source="OSt">14842058</recordIdentifier>
  </recordInfo>
</mods>
