This book is for any Christian who wishes to understand or develop a rational explanation of the Christian faith in the context of today's complex and ever-changing world. Packed with hundreds of articles that cover the key topics, historic figures and contemporary global issues relating to the study and practice of Christian apologetics.

Aids in understanding the terms and ideas and identifying the thinkers and movements. The Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics Philosophy of Religion is designed to be a companion to your study of these two related disciplines. Among its 300 entries are terms, from a posteriori to worldview apologists, from Abelard to Van Til philosophers of religion, from Alston to Wolterstorff movements, from analytic philosophy to voluntarism apologetic arguments, from the cosmological to the wager theologies, from Arminianism to Zoroastrianism.

This is a concise, informative guide for anyone looking for answers to questions of faith and reason. Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli have condensed their popular Handbook of Christian Apologetics, summarizing the foremost arguments for major Christian teachings and offering compelling responses to the most common arguments put forward against Christianity.

Topics include: faith and reason, the existence of God, God's nature, how we know God, creation and evolution, providence and free will, miracles, the problem of evil, the Bible's historical reliability, the divinity of Christ, the resurrection, life after death, heaven and hell, salvation, Christianity, and other religions, and objective truth.

Kenneth Boa and Robert Bowman have assembled a wealth of information about what Christians believe and how to present that faith to an unbelieving world. Faith Has Its Reasons is about much more than developing the intellectual discipline to answer abstract questions. Ultimately its purpose is to help bring people into a relationship with the living and true God.

New religious movements--also known as cults--are organizations that started in the last 200 years. Most treatments of these movements resort to sensationalism rather than objectivity and New religious movements tend to receive negative media publicity. Despite their unfavorable portrayal in popular culture, new religious movements are a global phenomenon and need to be studied. In this edition, Chryssides traces the rise and development of new religious movements throughout the world. The introduction summarizes the phenomenon of new religious movements and lays out the changes in the dictionary since the 2001 edition. The main body of the dictionary includes almost 600 cross-referenced entries on key figures, ideas, themes, and places related to various new religious movements. An index and a comprehensive bibliography are included.

This resource presents a potpourri of spiritual and psycho-physical therapeutic practices associated with the affirmation of the individual's spiritual freedom, the expectation of a future golden age, the emphasis on self-development and the holistic pluralism that sets the dominant pulse for innovative spirituality in the 21st Century. It provides profiles and explanations of New Age spokespeople and leaders, of a range of human potential and self-help practices, of countercultural spiritual developments, and of different groups and organizations that identify as New Age. It also presents the sociological dimension of New Age expression as well as the kinds of criticism the New Age identity must contend with. Included are a New Age chronology and an extensive index.