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Defending the Christian faith is a multidimensional task. But
central to that task must be the presentation and example of the
uniqueness of Christian love. Author and apologist Art Lindsley
explores the persuasive and illuminating power of Christ-like love
expressed in commitment, conscience, community and courage. Such
love, Lindsley shows us, does indeed bear ultimate witness to the
living truth of Jesus Christ.
There can be many obstacles to faith. As Art Lindsley says, "Lewis
knew what it was like not to believe. He struggled with many doubts
along the way to faith. Since he was an ardent atheist until age
thirty-one, Lewis's experience and education prepared him to
understand firsthand the most common arguments against
Christianity." As a scholar and teacher of literature at Oxford,
Lewis confronted many questions: Aren't all religions just humanly
invented myths? Doesn't evil in the world indicate an absence of
any personal or loving God? Why should what is true for one person
be true for me, especially when it comes to religion? How can
anyone claim that one religion is right? Why follow Jesus if he was
just another good moral teacher? This book provides a readable
introduction to Lewis's reflections on these and other objections
to belief in Jesus Christ and the compelling reasons why Lewis came
to affirm the truth of Christianity. Art Lindsley is a helpful and
reliable guide to the voluminous and sometimes challenging writings
of Lewis for both seekers and those who want to grasp their own
faith more deeply.
Conventional wisdom holds that any belief in absolutes, especially
of a religious nature, leads inevitably to the oppressive
absolutism of such movements as the Inquisition, the Crusades and
even Nazism. As a result, Christian apologists have been
hard-pressed to make a case for the rational absolutes that are a
necessary part of belief in Jesus. Art Lindsley takes up the task
in True Truth. While maintaining the indispensability of absolutes,
he ably demonstrates that faith in Christ is necessarily opposed to
and incompatible with the abuses of oppression, arrogance,
intolerance, self-righteousness, closed-mindedness and
defensiveness. Surprisingly, Lindsley shows that it is relativism
which often harbors dangerous, inflexible absolutisms. Here is a
book that actively challenges the dismissal of truth, preparing the
way for more effectively proclaiming the gospel and living
Christianly in a postmodern world.
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