Reasonable Faith Study Guide

by William Lane Craig

This Study Guide is a companion workbook to William Lane Craig's signature text Reasonable Faith (3rd ed.). It takes the reader through the book chapter by chapter, using "fill in the blank" questions to highlight the crucial points and to promote personal reflection. Excellent for small group studies as well as individual use.

Genres: Christianity, Philosophy, Theology, Christian

54 pages, Paperback

First published October 16, 2008

About the author

William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He and his wife Jan have two grown children.

At the age of sixteen as a junior in high school, he first heard the message of the Christian gospel and yielded his life to Christ. Dr. Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (B.A. 1971) and graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A. 1974; M.A. 1975), the University of Birmingham (England) (Ph.D. 1977), and the University of Munich (Germany) (D.Theol. 1984). From 1980-86 he taught Philosophy of Religion at Trinity, during which time he and Jan started their family. In 1987 they moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Dr. Craig pursued research at the University of Louvain until assuming his position at Talbot in 1994.

He has authored or edited over thirty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology; and God, Time and Eternity, as well as over a hundred articles in professional journals of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, New Testament Studies, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, and British Journal for Philosophy of Science.

Reviews

[Joey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent book if you want an academic deep-dive into some of the basic apologetic topics to help defend the Christian faith. If you only read one section of the book, the introduction is most worthwhile. Craig explains that it is very difficult for someone to be convinced to be a Christian upon hearing a single or many apologetic arguments. This is because it is the Holy Spirit who draws the nonbeliever to belief. However, the role of an apologist (every Christian) is to help nonbelievers "think again" about the legitimacy and importance of Jesus and Christianity.

[Kian.ting · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not an easy read will need to re read it again as I grow in faith, but I could follow some of the arguments. It talks about faith in so many dimensions even in Bayesian probability equations, that is the part that I am completely lost. What I gained from the arguments of faith is another lenses I could use to interpret scriptures. It would benefit everyone to rationally learn about the Christian faith.

[Joshua Reynolds · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a stellar introduction to natural theology and apologetics. For a very detailed analysis, see my blog article on this particular book: https://joshualukereynolds.blogspot.c...

[Martin Kaonga · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a well-researched and professionally written book with sound theological arguments. Good for Christians who are committed to to apologetics.

[Kristoffer Kruse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grundig gennemgang af det rationelle forsvar for Guds eksistens. De fleste temaer bliver behandlet

[Ryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

While I disagree with Craig on numerous fronts, he is my favorite apologist by a country mile. This book is dense but an excellent read if you would like a cogent defense of the faith.

[Tyler Conn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muh brain.

[Patti · Rating 5 out of 5]

This study guide is well worth purchasing to help you synthesize all that Craig lays out in the book. It focuses you in the salient points that Dr. Craig wants you to come away with.

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have been reading this book on and off for a long-time, but I finally finished it this afternoon. It is a good book for those who like classical apologetics and who desire to have plenty of intellectual ammunition against atheism. It is not, however, written from a Reformed perspective. The presuppositionalists will probably dismiss the book on the basis of the author's molinism, but many of the same arguments for the existence of God may be found in the writings of the Reformed dogmaticians. There is also a very good chapter on the importance of objective history. And it also has an excellent chapter on the evidence for the resurrection of Christ, effectively driving a bus through the absurd objections of liberals and other unbelievers.

[Greg Mathis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reasonable Faith represents a gold mine of apologetic scholarship. The unassuming reader may be surprised at Craig's bold treatment of and dexterity concerning issues of quantum theory and the hard sciences in general. Provided one can apprehend these concepts - or suffer through the extensive treatment - one will inevitably agree that the Christian worldview has much to offer the contemporary round table of cosmology and origins.