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The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity de Mark Clark

The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

Autor Mark Clark Cuvânt înainte de Larry Osborne
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 aug 2017

Destinat cercetătorilor, studenților la teologie și practicienilor interesați de apologetică, volumul The Problem of God oferă un set de instrumente intelectuale pentru navigarea tensiunilor dintre scepticismul modern și credința creștină. Considerăm că forța acestui demers rezidă în onestitatea intelectuală a lui Mark Clark, care nu evită punctele de fricțiune, ci le analizează prin prisma propriei tranziții de la ateism la creștinism.

Remarcăm o organizare riguroasă a materialului, împărțită în provocări evidente și teoretice. Cartea debutează cu deconstrucția mitului conform căruia credința și rațiunea ar fi opuse, argumentând că orice viziune despre lume necesită un fundament de încredere. Ulterior, autorul trece prin domenii complexe precum cosmologia, pentru a discuta originea universului, și arheologia, pentru a susține legitimitatea textelor biblice. Comparabil cu Without a Doubt de Kenneth Richard Samples în rigurozitatea argumentației, The Problem of God se distinge prin actualizarea discursului pentru contextul secular contemporan, abordând direct critici recente din zona „noului ateism”.

În contextul operei sale, această lucrare reprezintă pilonul fundamental al gîndirii lui Mark Clark, fiind completată de The Problem of Life, unde autorul migrează de la întrebările existențiale despre divinitate la cele despre suferință și împlinire umană. Spre deosebire de lucrările sale academice mai tehnice, aici stilul este persuasiv și accesibil, fără a sacrifica profunzimea academică. Structura progresivă, de la dovezile existenței lui Dumnezeu la identitatea istorică a lui Iisus, ghidează cititorul spre o concluzie logică despre validitatea sistemului de credință creștin.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780310535225
ISBN-10: 0310535220
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 139 x 213 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: ZONDERVAN
Colecția Zondervan
Locul publicării:Grand Rapids, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă fundamentele raționale ale creștinismului. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care știința și filosofia pot coexista cu teologia. Este un ghid practic pentru dialogul cu scepticii, oferind răspunsuri documentate la întrebări despre moralitate, iad și autenticitatea Bibliei, transformând îndoiala într-un instrument de explorare intelectuală.

Despre autor

Mark Clark este un autor și pastor recunoscut, cu o formare academică solidă, deținând un doctorat și activând ca profesor asociat la University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Experiența sa personală este marcată de o căutare riguroasă a adevărului, pornind de la un mediu familial ateu și explorând știința și istoria pentru a găsi răspunsuri la marile întrebări ale vieții. Această dublă identitate, de cercetător și teolog, îi permite să abordeze subiectele religioase cu o rigoare metodologică specifică științelor umaniste, făcând legătura între rigoarea academică și nevoile spirituale ale publicului contemporan.

Recenzii

I’m a big fan of Mark Clark. His new book, The Problem of God, is important. I love books that will bless and deepen seasoned saints and also speak provocatively to seekers and skeptics. Every emerging generation needs fresh voices to help illuminate our path with Jesus; I believe Mark Clark is one of those voices.
If you ever wished there was an apologetics book that was academically sound, logically compelling, and actually fun to read, your wait is over. Mark Clark brings his own engaging, fun, and refreshing voice to some of the key objections to the Christian faith. He does the almost impossible task of making a usually dry subject not only easy to understand but enjoyable and compelling, without losing any academic integrity. This book is a must-read for Christians and skeptics alike.
Like my friend Mark Clark, I was raised in an atheist household. When I was eighteen years old, I actually talked one of my friends out of being a Christian! I will never forget that conversation because I realized that the reason he could be talked out of his faith so easily was because it had no solid foundation. That’s why I am praying that Mark’s new book will be read by millions. Mark is one of the next generation’s best communicators. This book is just like Mark---honest, inspirational, and encouraging. Read it and pass it on!

Descriere

The Problem of God explores answers to the most difficult questions raised against Christianity.
A skeptic who became a Christian and then a pastor, author Mark Clark grew up in an atheistic home. After his father's death, he began a skeptical search for truth through the fields of science, philosophy, and history, eventually finding answers in the last place he expected: Christianity.
In a winsome, persuasive, and humble voice, The Problem of God responds to the top ten interrogations people bring against God, and Christianity, including:
  • Does God even exist in the first place?
  • What do we do with Christianity's violent history?
  • Is Jesus just another myth?
  • Can the Bible be trusted?
  • Why should we believe in Hell anymore today?
Each chapter answers the specific challenge using a mix of theology, philosophy, and science. Filled with compelling stories and anecdotes, The Problem of God presents an organized and easy-to-understand range of apologetics, focused on both convincing the skeptic and informing the Christian.
The book concluding with Christianity's most audacious assertion: how should we respond to Jesus' claim that he is God and the only way to salvation.

Cuprins

IntroductionIntroduces Mark’s story, the story of the church, and frames the questions answered in the book.PART 1 – Evidential ChallengesChapter 1: The Challenge of Faith vs. ReasonProposes that everyone has a faith position, that the dichotomy between faith and reason is a myth, and that the best worldviews need to be coherent and viable from a historical, philosophical, and scientific standpoint. (Includes a lot of engagement in recent scholarship and atheism.)Chapter 2: The Challenge of God’s ExistenceExplores evidence for God’s existence taken from three major areas. These include moral law, origins of the universe, and the teleological argument. (Includes a lot of engagement in philosophy, physics, and cosmology.) Chapter 3: The Challenge of the BibleGives a defense of the legitimacy of the Bible, from a historical, archeological, and literary standpoint. Chapter 4: The Challenge of the Christ MythThis chapter answers the challenge of Jesus’s existence, deconstructs the Christ Myth, and argues for the legitimacy of the historical Jesus and his resurrection. What makes this chapter stand out is that it directly challenges the Christ Myth, interacting directly with those who have popularized this theory. This chapter will establish that the parallels are imagined and that Jesus is unique in history. This chapter offers a unique and liberating answer for Christians who encounter this popular challenge.PART 2 – Moralistic ChallengesChapter 5: The Challenge of Evil and SufferingExplores the philosophical reasons behind the reality of evil and suffering in the world and attempts to reconcile the reality of evil and suffering with God’s existence. (Philosophical and practical.)Chapter 6: The Challenge of HellArgues for the legitimacy of the doctrine of hell. This chapter engages some of the more popular discussions on hell, including universalism. It also offers a biblical presentation of the doctrine of hell based on Scripture and the logic of justice.Chapter 7: The Challenge of SexThis chapter addresses the popular rejection of Christianity based on a modern cultural construct of sexual ethics, which asks if God is anti-sex. The chapter explores the biblical presentation of sex as a pleasure-filled, God-glorifying reality, and it challenges both the worship of sex and the suppression of it. (This chapter is one of the unique aspects of this book and will likely get people talking. The author calls for sex to play a central role in the lives of married people and discusses topics such as pornography, frequency, and orgasms. The content draws on scholarship, modern examples, and years of pastoral counseling and preaching on the topic.)Chapter 8: The Challenge of Christian HypocrisyExplores accusations that Christianity is “poison” (Hitchens), judgmental, and exclusive and therefore should be dismissed. This chapter explores some of the classic justifications for rejecting Christianity (witch-burning, war) and shows them to be both exaggerated and antithetical to the spirit of Christianity.Chapter 9: The Challenge of ExclusivityThis chapter looks closely at the challenge of Christianity on the basis that it excludes other worldviews and religions, finding that such exclusion is logical and right. It is a winsome and funny chapter that explores the irony of the modern worldview, which wants to include everyone and say everyone is right!Chapter 10: The Challenge of JesusExplores the person and work of Jesus as a final chapter, which forces readers into the crisis of believing Jesus was who he said he was---or choosing to reject him. If he wasn’t who the prophets---and Jesus himself---said he was, then Christianity shouldn’t be believed. But if he did fulfill the prophecies and perform the miracles that are attributed to him, not to mention dying and rising again, then the reader should trust in Christ.

Notă biografică

Mark Clark is the founding pastor of Village Church in Vancouver, Canada. Starting in 2010 out of a school gym, it is now one of the fastest growing multi-site churches in North America. Mark combines frank and challenging biblical preaching with real-world applications and apologetics to speak to Christians and skeptics, confronting questions, doubts, and assumptions about Christianity. His sermons have millions of downloads per year from over 120 different countries.