Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Case For Christ Book Will Affirm Your Faith

Case For Christ is book written by Lee Strobel, an American Christian Author, journalist, apologist and pastor. Lee Strobel is author known for writing Christian inspired books, among which four of them won ECPA Christian Book Awards. He is a former atheist who inspired by his wife's conversion to Christianity, began to investigate the Biblical claims about Christ. As result of the conclusions of his investigation, Lee Strobel from an avowed atheist turned into a devoted Christian. Today, he is a member of the Willow Creek Association and speaks at churches.

Case for Christ is Strobel's award-winning book which portraits his converting from atheist to Christian. According to his sayings, Case for Christ follows his journey towards his complete conversion of atheist towards becoming Christian. This Christian book consists of interviews with 13 Christian evangelical scholars, who explain and defend their views about the evidences and the historical reliability of the New Testament.


The religious and historical scholars that Strobel interviews in his book are: J. P. Moreland, Craig Blomberg, Gary Habermas, Bruce Metzger, William Lane Craig, Edwin Yamauchi, Alexander Metherell, John McRay, Louis Lapides, Gregory Boyd, D.A. Carson, Ben Witherington III and Gary Collins.

The fact that all of the scholars that the author collaborated with in his investigation, are authorities in their fields of study that gives the book additional value and reliability. The authority of the scholars and their teaching is one of the main reason why the book Case for Christ turned to be successful project among the Christian communities in different countries worldwide.

Case for Christ is divides in three parts: Examining the Record, Analyzing Jesus and Researching the Resurrection. The main goal that the author wanted to achieve with this book is to point to a veracious proof about the veracity of the New Testament.


The evidences of Strobel's research and the statements of the thirteen renowned religious and historical scholars are documented not only in the book Case for Christ, but also in a documentary film that holds the same name. Both, the documentary film and the book that won the Gold Medallion Book Award for excellence became evidence of his findings and became one of the favourite Christian book/movie for affirming the faith for numerous Christians around the world, including the Christian community in Australia.

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