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Title: The Case for Christ (Pack of 6) by Lee Strobel ISBN: 0-310-22627-9 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.94 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Does the job, of an Apologetics book.
Comment: To start out, let me say that being a Christian my review might/will be biased. =)
From the many Apologetics-jargon for defending our faith, not for apologising for it-type books this falls in the middle category in complexity, in evidence, and understandability. Having an analytical mind, this book was easy for me to read. Strobel interviews "experts" in their particular fields like Craig Blomberg (expert in the Gospels). Who in turn would give out the evidence, in Blomberg's case why the Gospels (Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John) are truthful and accurate. Other chapters deal with, archeology, psychology, medical view of death/resurrection, historical accuracy, etc.
I led a Bible Study with this book at UC Irvine, and the students were not fully able to understand the train of thought of Strobel in some chapters, which surprised me. However, they were excited to find more facts in what they believed.
Yet, this is a more complicated book than Paul Little's "Know why you believe" but definitely easier to digest than C.S. Lewis' books such as "Problem of Pain" or "The Great Divorce" (I'd have to read some sentences/paragraphs 2-3 times before understanding), or J.P. Moreland's "Scaling the Secular City" (in which after reading some paragraphs 4-5 times I would wonder if it was written in english at all, albeit an excellent philosophical book)
As this book is a "summary" of each particular topic, it doesn't go in-depth in any one topic, but it would be a great starting point as it has citations and references to 120+ "academic" books.
All in all, I think this is a great book for NEW believers, to re-affirm their faith, and answer their questions at heart. Can't really say this book would turn an unbeliever to Christ, but it might help for those who need questions answered. After all, God works in wonderful (weird?) ways.
Rating: 5
Summary: SUPERB evidence for the existence of Jesus!
Comment: Lee Strobel has done his homework and produced an excellent book on the evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He asks all the questions the common man/woman would ask.
The best part of the book is at the very end. Lee asks us, "So what!" Now that we are armed with all of this evidence, what do we do with it? It's up to us to decide to follow Jesus or not. There's SO much evidence. There is no denying that Jesus Christ is truely the Son of God. There are so many facts from both secular and sacred sources that prove it.
I encourage the skeptic, the agnostic, the atheist, the Jew, the Buddist, the Hindu, etc., and even the person who "thinks" he/she is a Christian, to read this easy-to-read book, and then try to dispute the findings.
For those who were already convinced that Jesus is the Son of God, it will only strengthen your faith. It did mine!
Julie A. Belonger
Rating: 1
Summary: Case not proven, not at all
Comment: I have a graduate divinity degree and have studied all the extrabiblical material of Strobel's experts. Numerous claims are wrong.
Strobel claims that consensus of the early church is on the four named persons being Gospellers... not true; Bishop Papias, mentioned on page 23, refers to a "Matthew" written in Hebrew letters - obviously not the Biblical book; his statement about Mark is obviously written in response to claims that Mark either was not an eyewitness or otherwise did not get information correct or both.
I myself know that there's plenty of reason countering claims that Acts could not have been written later than 62 A.D. First of all, the "we" sections of Acts are employing a literary fiction commonly used in Greek and Latin literature of the first and second centuries whenever the main characters started a shipboard journey. In this style, the "we" ends when the characters disembark and get back on land.
Read Acts carefully; its "we" sections fit exactly this pattern.
Old Testament prophecy does not point directly to Jesus. For example, in Isaiah 7, the Hebrew word is NOT "virgin" but a word simply meaning "young woman of marriageable age." A couple of years after that prophecy, Hezekiah was born.
Luke's "census" was misdated by 10 years. At the time Jesus is believed to have been born, Herod's kingdom was an independent entity and not subject to any Roman census.
The quote from Josephus? At least partially if not completely a later addition.
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Title: The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity by Lee Strobel ISBN: 0310234697 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee Strobel ISBN: 0310209307 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0060652926 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 05 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell ISBN: 0842345523 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: April, 1987 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: God's Outrageous Claims by Lee Strobel ISBN: 0310225612 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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