Responding To Critical Claims About Jesus
A few resources to get started with.
This page is not intended to be a comprehensive place to find answers to all objections to the Christian faith. Rather it has some links and references to help respond to some issues of the moment. All references are to books unless otherwise stated.
The New Atheist's Movement (Richard Dawkins et al).
Specifically the New Atheist Movement
- Deluded by Dawkins (Andrew Wilson)
Dawkin's 'God Delusion' is full of rhetoric. This useful book calmly puts in table format the issues that Dawkins raises and deals with them. -
The Dawkins Delusion (Alister McGrath)
Another good and useful response. - God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (John Lennox)
Melanie Philips from the Spectator calls this book 'an excoriating demolition of Dawkin's overreach from biology into religion' - The Truth Behind the New Atheism: Responding to the Emerging Challenges to God and Christianity (David Marshall)
- Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God (Scott Hahn)
- Is Richard Dawkins still evolving? - Article
- The Dawkins/Lennox debate - Video
General books on Atheism
- The Real Face of Atheism (Ravi Zacharias)
The implications of the Atheist's Worldview - The End of Reason (Ravi Zacharias)
Responding to Sam Harris's book 'Letter to a Christian Nation' - The Reason For God (Timothy Keller)
A largish book that runs through a variety of reasons why people might reject Christian Theism. - There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind (Anthony Flew)
The Da Vinci Code
- Is it worth believing? The Spiritual Challenge of the Da Vinci Code (Greg Clarke)
An easy to read summary of why the DVC is not to be taken seriously - Breaking the Da Vinci Code (Darrell Bock)
A more in depth look - The Gospel Code. Novel Claims About Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Da Vinci (Ben Witherington III)
Even greater detail again.
The Zeitgeist film
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CPX (Centre For Public Christianity), host an interview with Dr Chris Forbes
A useful interview. It would be great if many net surfers could watch this before quickly dismissing the Jesus of history.
