The 20 papers presented at the "Cornell Symposium on Evidential Apologetics". Included are papers on the evidential approach to Christianity, cosmology, biology, biblical criticism, the historical value of the biblical documents, and the problem of evil. Especially significant is the essay "The Jury Returns: A Juridical Defense of Christianity" by the editor. "A spiritual and intellectual gold mine . . . there is no other volume like it". (Dr. J. P. Moreland, Biola University)
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Over the past fifty years many valuable books have been written in the area of Christian Apologetics. Several authors' names come to mind: C.S. Lewis, E.J. Carnell, B. Ramm, N. Geisler, C. Pinnock, J. McDowell, W.L. Craig, among many others. John Warwick Montgomery stands with them in a common mission. For nearly forty years he has persistently pointed thinking people to the cross of Christ, in his debates with unbelievers and through this apologetical writings. His recent work, Evidence for Faith, carries on the mission admirably. What makes this volume different from most others in its genre is (a) its multiple authorship and (b) its broad range of subject matter. The anthology contains no less than twenty essays written by nine scholars covering such diverse subjects as The Evidence from Cosmology, Biomedical Prescience, Messianic Prophecy, The Problem of Evil, and Legal Reasoning and Revelational Truth-Claims. The authors are especially well qualified in their disciplines, five of them having been trained in both science and theology. The thesis of Montgomery's essay, "A Juridical Defense of Christianity", is that legal reasoning, when applied to Christianity, " . . . results in a verdict for the Christian Faith." The justification for using such reasoning lies ": . . . in the difficulty in jettisoning it: legal standards of evidence develop as essential means of resolving the most intractable disputes in society . . ." The author employs legal reasoning to answer four key questions pertaining to the central truth claims of the Gospel. He examines: 1. the reliability of the historical records of Jesus 2. the reliability of the testimony concerning Jesus' life and divine claims about Himself 3. the resurrection as proof of his divine claims, and 4. the divine stamp of approval which Jesus placed upon the Bible. There are valuable insights to be gleaned throughout the essay, but perhaps especially interesting to the reader will be Montgomery's application of a fourfold legal test for exposing perjury to the question of the reliability of biblical testimony. Everyone who believes in giving evidence for faith should want to have a copy of this useful book. Review by Prof. Gary Colwell, Concordia College, Edmonton, Alberta. -- Christian Legal Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 3, Spring 1993.
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John Warwick Montgomery is Professor of Law and Humanities at the University of Luton, England, and Director of its Human Rights Centre. He annually conducts the University's International Seminar in Jurisprudence and Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. Professor Montgomery holds eight earned degrees besides the LL.B.: the A.B. with distinction in Philosophy (Cornell University; Phi Beta Kappa), B.L.S. and M.A. (University of California at Berkeley), B.D. and S.T.M. (Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio), M. Phil. in Law (University of Essex, England), Ph.D. (University of Chicago), and the Doctorat d'Universit from Strasbourg, France. Before moving to the United Kingdom, he served on the faculty of the University of Chicago and was Chairman of the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is a barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn, England; member of the California, Virginia, Washington State, and District of Columbia Bars and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States Dr. Montgomery is the author of over one hundred scholarly journal articles and more than forty books in English, French, Spanish and German.
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This review is from: Evidence for Faith: Deciding the God Question (Paperback)
John Warwick Montgomery (b. 1931) is one of the major philosophical apologists of the 20th century. He is also a trained lawyer, which influenced his "historical/legal" approach to Christian apologetics. He is perhaps best known as a writer for his book History and Christianity, as well as for his debates with the infamous atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1967), with the "Death of God" theologian Thomas Altizer (reprinted in Montgomery's book The Suicide of Christian Theology), as well as with Joseph Fletcher, who wrote the book Situation Ethics: The New Morality (Library of Theological Ethics). (The Montgomery/Fletcher debate is reprinted in Situation ethics; true or false?: A dialogue between Joseph Fletcher and John Warwick Montgomery (Dimension books).)In this 1991 collection, Montgomery contributes a Preface ("This is a book for believers and for unbelievers ... This volume is literally capable of changing lives, and the lives of more than one of its contributors were in fact turned upside down by the force of the evidences here set forth"), as well as an essay, "The Jury Returns: A Juridical Defense of Christianity" which is an excellent summary of Montgomery's approach to apologetics. There are sections on "God and Scientific Cosmology" (including three essays by Robert C. Newman, author of books such as Genesis one & the origin of the Earth), "Revelatory Biology" (four essays by William J. Cairney), "Biblical Criticism and Bible Prophecy," "God's Existence and Christ's Claims," and "A Time for Decision." This is an excellent selection, that will be useful to anyone interested in Christian apologetics.
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