Reasons for Our Hope by House H. Wayne & Jowers Dennis W

Author:House, H. Wayne & Jowers, Dennis W. [House, H. Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: B&H Publishing
Published: 2011-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

1 A. Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), ix.

2 Ibid., 6 (italics his).

3 Ibid., 34.

4 Ibid., 21–27. We argue for the same conclusion in this work’s chap. 7.

5 Ibid., 84–85.

6 Ibid., 93; cf. 94–99.

7 Ibid., 100–101.

8 Ibid., 428.

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid., 444.

11 Ibid., 445 (italics his).

12 Ibid., 446.

13 Ibid., 369.

14 Ibid., 370 (italics his).

15 Ibid., 191.

16 Josh McDowell admittedly first enunciates the trilemma in the memorable words, “liar, lunatic, or Lord” (More Than a Carpenter [Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1980], 25–34). He clearly drew inspiration from the following words of Lewis (in Mere Christianity [London: Macmillan, 1952], 40–41), which he quotes in More Than a Carpenter, 25–26:

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

17 Lewis, Mere Christianity, 3–4 (italics his).

18 Ibid., 5.

19 Ibid., 8.

20 Ibid., 9 (italics his).

21 Ibid.

22 Ibid.

23 Ibid.

24 Ibid., 10.

25 Ibid., 11.

26 Ibid., 12.

27 Ibid., 14–15.

28 Ibid., 15–16.

29 Ibid., 20.

30 Ibid., 40.

31 Ibid.

32 G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, in Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, ed. D. Dooley (1908; reprint, San Francisco: Ignatius, 1986), 286.

33 Ibid., 275.

34 Ibid., 301.

35 Ibid., 303.

36 Ibid.

37 R. Swinburne, The Existence of God, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon, 2004), 58, n. 4.

38 Ibid., 58.

39 Ibid., 156.

40 Ibid., 156–57.

41 Ibid., 141.

42 Ibid., 141–43.

43 Ibid., 134.

44 Ibid., 134–45.

45 Ibid., 135.

46 Ibid., 12.

47 Ibid., 19.

48 Ibid., 60–61.

49 Ibid., 66.

50 Ibid., 58.

51 Ibid., 147.

52 Ibid., 53–57.

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