The Case for Christ: a Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
Being a Christian and a student of Communications, I felt compelled to reading The Case for Christ. I decided to use this book for this review especially due to the large amount of criticisms and backlash it had received. Lee Strobel is known for being a hard-nosed skeptical journalist and ex-investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune. He also described himself as a "former spiritual skeptic" before his personal mission for the proof of God. Skeptics around the world claim that Jesus either never said He was God or He never exemplified the activities and mindset of God. Either way they rather triumphantly proclaim that Jesus was just a man. Some will go so far as to suggest that He was a very moral and special man, but a man nonetheless. For Strobel, there was far too much evidence against the idea of God, let alone the possibility that God became a man. God was just mythology, superstition, or wishful thinking.
Initially what caught my interest were Strobel 's "court room" questions with experts in the book, rather than logically bulldozing his way to solutions. To name a few, he grills Catholic lay philosopher Peter Kreeft about the problem of evil, Indian-born evangelist Ravi Zacharias about Christian exclusivism, historian John Woodbridge about oppression in the name of Christ, and other authorities about the truth of miracles, God 's callousness in the Hebrew Bible, the Justice of Hell, the challenge of evolution, and the struggle with persistent doubt.
The Case for Christ was written in the style of an investigative report with bluntly asked questions forcing high profile scholars to give understandable arguments to support their opinions and conclusions. Strobel believed this brought complex theological concepts and historical issues down to an accessible level, where he pieced together hard facts through these interviews. "I confront leading evangelical thinkers with the kind of skeptical objections that are shared by many people" he said in an
Initially what caught my interest were Strobel 's "court room" questions with experts in the book, rather than logically bulldozing his way to solutions. To name a few, he grills Catholic lay philosopher Peter Kreeft about the problem of evil, Indian-born evangelist Ravi Zacharias about Christian exclusivism, historian John Woodbridge about oppression in the name of Christ, and other authorities about the truth of miracles, God 's callousness in the Hebrew Bible, the Justice of Hell, the challenge of evolution, and the struggle with persistent doubt.
The Case for Christ was written in the style of an investigative report with bluntly asked questions forcing high profile scholars to give understandable arguments to support their opinions and conclusions. Strobel believed this brought complex theological concepts and historical issues down to an accessible level, where he pieced together hard facts through these interviews. "I confront leading evangelical thinkers with the kind of skeptical objections that are shared by many people" he said in an
References: Kush, K., Lee Strobel 's Nonsensical "case" for Christ, [http://www.mwillett.org/atheism/strobel.htm] Accessed in 2005. Lowder, J. J., (1999) The Rest of the Story, Society of Humanist Philosophers Martin, M., (1991) The Case Against Christianity, Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Strobel, L. (1998), The Case for Christ: A Journalist 's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus, Zondervan: Michigan. Zondervan Church Resource, Interview with Lee Strobel, [http://www.zondervanchurchsource.com/instrobel.htm] Accessed in 2005.