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Always Ready: Directions For Defending The Faith

This book belongs to the field of Christian apologetics, the discipline of offering a reasoned defence of the Christian faith. Its aim is practical: to equip believers to answer objections to what they believe and to present the faith clearly to people who doubt or reject it. Rather than treating apologetics as a set of isolated arguments, the work considers how a defence of Christianity should be structured from the ground up, including the assumptions that shape how arguments are built and judged. Readers interested in how Christians can speak confidently about their faith, and in the philosophical questions behind that confidence, will find a serious guide here.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 289 pages

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