Why Should Anyone Believe Anything At All?

A helpful introduction to several aspects of Christian apologetics and general philosophical outlooks. It’s intended audience is university students. My only criticism is that it read like two books—the first half philosophical, the second half theological/biblical. The interweaving of the two foci......more

Pretty good overview of some basic issues with religious epistemology and issues with Christian epistemology in particular. I thought his treatment of the role of personal experience in the latter part of the book was particularly excellent. I there there are some ways in which the author's treatmen......more

So many beliefs, so many world views, so little thought. Sire is not writing a dissertation but he is trying to get the reader to think and quit falling for every line of thought that hits our fancy. Too many people today dare not think ... and that, I think, is a shame.......more

This book was developed from a talk that Sire gave at over one hundred university campuses. The talk's name was the same as the book's, and Sire would have volunteers pass out index cards that had that question printed on it to students, who would then write down their answers. Their answers were pl......more

Sire does a good job in covering the lot, from philosophical and modern evaluations through reason (which he argues is itself an act of faith) to reach the biblical truths. He even deal with modern skeptic questions about the resurrection, about the reliability of the Bible, about the problem of evi......more