The book gives the feel of coming from a lifetime of thinking and interacting with skeptics, not just a particular season of research. Not many people could write a book that engages all these various topics in an informed and compelling way, but McLaughlin has done it. This breadth of focus is impressive-you find yourself learning about historical controversies like Galileo (112-114) and the Crusades (79), contemporary moral debates concerning abortion (149-152) and sexuality (155-74), and deep philosophical topics like the argument for God from the applicability of math to the world (129-30) or the Buddhist view of suffering (195-97). It’s similar in both style and content to Tim Keller’s Making Sense of God, which is the last book I read in my current research project on apologetics.Ĭonfronting Christianity tackles a wide variety of issues, from classical objections like “how could a loving God allow so much suffering?” (chapter 11) to the most immediately pressing questions of contemporary Western culture like “doesn’t Christianity denigrate women?” (chapter 8) and “Isn’t Christianity homophobic?” (chapter 9).

I know I’m a little late to this, but I just finished Rebecca McLaughlin’s Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion (Crossway, 2019), which I thoroughly enjoyed.

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