Mere Apologetics
How To Help Seekers And Skeptics Find Faith

To start with, and to tell the truth, am quite tired of apologetics cos from my limited experience, seldom do classical arguments win souls for the Lord. Instead these exchanges often end up with ok-this-is-what-you-believe-and-this-is-what-i-believe-and-lets-agree-to-differ. And often debates (esp......more

As the title suggests, "Mere Apologetics" by Alister McGrath focuses on exposing fundamental ideas about apologetics and its importance for every Christian believer. McGrath begins his book by trying to define what apologetics is. He tries to set it in the context of Scripture and the Early Church, a......more

Great book, for what it tries to do. I love McGrath, and this book was almost a 5-star, but I couldn't ignore the flaws, however minor. There was a spot where he uses a parable to make an apologetic point completely different from the original divine meaning of the story. In another section he simpl......more

I was considering to give this book a 5 star rating because I loved McGrath’s approach in this book, to give the reader the possibility to create their own apologetic approach. The book was instructive and gave a great source of theory, but it was also quite practical (and that would have made it a......more