Confronting Christianity, Rebecca McLaughlin
Confronting Christianity, Rebecca McLaughlin
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Confronting Christianity
12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion

Author: Rebecca McLaughlin

Narrator: Rebecca McLaughlin

Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/19/2019


Synopsis

Religion's decline in the modern world turns out to be a myth.

Christianity is the most widespread global belief system, and promises to remain so well into the future. But for many educated westerners, biblical Christianity is a dangerous idea—challenging some of their deepest beliefs.

Channeling state-of-the-art research, personal stories, and careful biblical study, Confronting Christianity explores twelve questions that keep many of us from considering faith in Christ. Look more closely, McLaughlin argues, and the reality of suffering, the complexity of sexuality, the desire for diversity, the success of science, and other seeming roadblocks to faith become signposts. Jesus becomes not a relic from the ancient world, but our modern world's best hope.

About Rebecca McLaughlin

Rebecca McLaughlin holds a PhD in renaissance literature from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill College in London. She is cofounder of Vocable Communications and former vice president of content at the Veritas Forum, where she spent almost a decade working with Christian academics at leading secular universities.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Darla on September 29, 2022

I found this book to be both edifying and encouraging. Each chapter focuses on an issue that can be a stumbling block to accepting Christianity with topics including from "Aren't We Better Off Without Religion," "Doesn't Religion Cause Violence," Doesn't Christianity Denigrate Women," "Isn't Christi......more

Goodreads review by Matt on May 02, 2019

I know it’s only May, but I’m declaring it now: This is the 2019 Christian book of the year.......more

Goodreads review by Mark on May 27, 2019

What first attracted me to Rebecca McLaughlin’s Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion was the title. I actually assumed it was a non-Christian book. Second was the author: I read a piece of hers on TGC that I liked. Third, to be honest, was that Crossway wa......more

Goodreads review by Ayla on June 29, 2020

Meh probably more like a 2.5 if I’m honest. The problem I have with this book isn’t the content but that the content presented does not always answer the questions presented. For most of the chapters, I was left wondering how this actually confronts Christianity, when the “arguments” are surface lev......more

Goodreads review by Hunter on March 16, 2020

Confronting Christianity is an incredibly helpful book for all believers. I feel more equipped to share my faith, particularly in the highly educated, academic environment my husband and I find ourselves in while he's attending Tuck Business School at Dartmouth. You definitely want to get the hard c......more