includes index and biblioraphy

Christians today face growing challenges to show that their faith is both relevant and credible. The author combines the two original best selling volumes into one, maintianing their classic defense of the faith. Yet answering new special features include: - Ne research and documentation of archaelogical evidence from the last twenty years - Added chapter highlighting the quest for the historical Jesus and exposing major weaknesses of the `Jesus Seminar`. - Entirely new section covering such topics as the nature of truth, answers to postmodernism, skepticism, agnosticism, and mysticism the certainity of the christian worldview and the knowability of history. - More effectively organized for convenient use - Attractive new format featuring reader friendly page design, charts, tables, diagrams and sidebars.