Faith Examined - by Clark R Bates & Jorge Gil Calderon

Book Synopsis

This book serves two purposes--to honor the apologist and author Dr. Frank Turek and, in the spirit of his ministry, present reasoned responses to challenges currently facing the church. Every year, for more than one decade, Dr. Turek has hosted the Cross Examined Instructors Academy (CIA) through his Cross Examined Ministries, wherein he leads a group of professors and apologists as they teach and train others in the field of apologetics. Several rising stars within the apologetics community began their ministries because of Dr. Turek and the CIA. The authors of this book were chosen from this ever-widening pool of CIA attendees, past and present, most of whom have gone on to academic instruction or their own successful apologetics ministries. Their contributions broadly address challenges from philosophy and science; challenges against Jesus and the Bible; and even challenges facing parents and the church. Many topics offer new approaches, while others reestablish existing responses, but all seek to provide answers to a skeptical world for the hope that rests within all Christians.

Review Quotes

"Faith Examined provides a good collection of articles from thoughtful and skilled apologists on a variety of issues of contemporary concern. What is more, it could not be in honor of a better person than Dr. Frank Turek, whose ministry has impacted so many lives and, by God's grace, will continue to do so for years to come."
--Richard G. Howe, provost and chair of Christian apologetics, Southern Evangelical Seminary

About the Author

Clark R. Bates is professor of New Testament at Forge Theological Seminary and a PhD candidate with the University of Birmingham, UK, researching the early commentaries on the book of Ephesians. He has been published in scholarly journals such as the Byzantine Review, The Expository Times, and Diogenes and is the co-editor of the book That Nothing May be Lost: The New Testament Text and Its Transmission as Observed in Fragments.