"People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           by Dr. Kent M. Keith

Kenneth  D.Boa & Robert M.  Bowman Jr. Faith Has Its Reasons,

Kenneth  D.Boa & Robert M.  Bowman Jr. Faith Has Its Reasons, USA: Paternoster, 2005.

ISBN-13:978-1-932805-34-5

Pages-658.

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In this present challenging world Christians have been facing the difficult to How to relate the Christian worldview to a non-Christian world. Twenty centuries of experience have not simplified this task, as new challenges have arisen in every century and new methods and approaches to defending the Christian faith have been formulated in response. In this book Kenneth  D.Boa (is engaged in a ministry of relational evangelism and discipleship, teaching, writing, and speaking. He holds a B.S. From Case Institute of Technology, a Th.M.  From Dallas Theological Seminary, a Ph.D. from New York University, and a D.Phil. From the University of Oxford in England. He also is the president of Reflections Ministries and Trinity House Publishers) and Robert M.  Bowman Jr. ( is the president of the Centre for Biblical Apologetic). Has brought  some of the important figures Apologetics.

This  book contains six parts and twenty-three chapters. In the first part of this book define Apologetics, its related terms, and functions. The authors provide a defining Apologetics that stands head and shoulders over most, due to their clear style and thorough treatment. The authors then offer a brief history of Apologetics that covers the New Testament, Early Church Fathers, Augustine, Aquinas, Anselm, and the Reformation, closing with a discussion of modern Apologetics. In the chapter three, as they explain four main types of apologetic systems: Classical, Evidentialist, Reformed, and Fideist Apologetics. In part two They deals with the Classical Apologetics it emphasizes the presentation of Christianity as rational as logically coherent and supportable by sound arguments and offers what is its advocates consider proofs of various for the existence of God as a first step in defending the truth claims of the Christian faith. Here the authors examining the roots of classical Apologetics and consider briefly the thought of modern classical Apologist. Continually they bring how this principle is related to various crucial areas of human knowledge that have an important bearing on the truth claims of Christianity. In sixth chapter they speak about the existence of the God, the evidence for Jesus Christ and the inspiration of the Bible are sufficient to show that Christianity is true. In the conclusion of the part two they summarize Classical Apologetics model for the Apologetics, illustrate its use in practical Apologetics encounters, and then consider its major strength and weaknesses. In part three the authors examine the roots of evidentialist Apologetics and consider briefly the thought of five modern evidentialists. And give special attention to the apologetic system of the influential contemporary evidentialist John Warwick Montgomery. In part four they emphasizing conservative Calvinistic or Reformed circles, the approach emphasizes the presentation of Christianity as revealed as based on the authoritative revelation of God in Scripture and in Jesus Christ. It’s most common forms find absolute and certain proof of Christianity in the absolute and certain Character of the knowledge that God has and that he has revealed to humanity.  They begin by examining in some depth the apologetic thought of John Calvin himself. Following that they discuss the Modern roots of Reformed apologetics, and then consider the thought of four twentieth- Century Reformed apologists. In part five the authors examine the roots of fideist Apologetics and consider briefly  the thought of five influential fideist Apologists.  Fideism or the emphasis on a faith commitment. The reasons of the heart will bring you to a personal encounter with God in Jesus Christ. Martin Luther, Blaise Pascal, Karl Barth are proponents. They  have argued that the insights of fideism can be incorporated into apologetics. It is clear, though, that a full-bodied apologetic will have to draw from one or more of the other approaches as well. In Part Six: Integrative Approaches to Apologetics, the authors explore a number of apologists who incorporate elements from each of the different approaches. They “integrate” elements from the different methodologies: “Typically, these apologists integrate two or more approaches by expanding one approach to absorb elements (usually not the whole) of the others.

This book is a good attempt Kenneth Boa and Robert Bowman have assembled a wealth of information about what Christians believe and how to present that faith to an unbelieving world. The book is very helpful in identifying the various kinds of appeals, arguments, and defenses of the faith that can be mounted. We are also reminded that people differ in what will appeal to them, and they differ at various points in their lives. Each section includes a sample dialog exhibiting how the practitioner of that apologetic style would interact with a nonbeliever.
However, the book's greatest virtue is its ability to locate the importance of Apologetics in the life of the church as well as in the personal faith of the individual believer. I recommend this book to all of the Christian ministers, especially to the Christian Apologetics.

 Theology 

The World Is Not Your End

You may conquer the galaxies and reign over the stars,

Then, after that, what yet?

You may receive adulation of all that are born,

Then, after that, what yet?

You may have all the riches that riches can contain,

Then, after that, what yet?

Does space have a border; is there to heights an end?

You move upwards, downwards, and sidewards;

Yet, farther recedes space

(Distraught by time);

You never reach

‘Cos the world is not your end.

I will show you your destiny,

O man, woman, or child, whoever!

This world is a train, don’t just walk in it,

‘Cos the train is not the end.

Get your maps ready, chart your course right,

Here is your destiny, beyond space and time:

Eternity…

This world is a little game, with spectators all around,

The game seems all reality when you’re playing in the ground.

But, sooner the game will be over; then, there’s a world

beyond…

Each fragment of life is a game with its rules, a perspective, an

angle;

Don’t be so lost in it, that you forget that rules are man-made,

Don’t flow passively with the current…

But, then, you’ll flow if you know not where to go!But, you should know it, shouldn’t you?

Here is it, then, again: eternity…

Rule 1: What do you leave for your posterity?

What history, legacy, and life?

Rule 2: What do you have in heaven?

What joys, satisfaction, and rewards?

                                                  Dr. Domenic Marbaniang,  Goosebumps 

                                                  Globalism

Francis A. Schaeffer, Escape from reason,

Francis A. Schaeffer, Escape from reason, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1971.

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Pages- 96.

Christian responsibility is not only to hold to the basic, scriptural principles of the Christian faith inside the Church, but to communicate these unchanging truths into the generation in which it is living. Every generation of Christian has problem of learning how to speak meaningfully to its own age. If we are to communicate the Christian faith effectively, therefore we must know and understand the thought form of our own age. So in this book the author Francis A. Schaeffer was an American Christian theologian, philosopher, apologist, and Presbyterian pastor, as well as the founder of the L'Abri community in Switzerland. He talks in this book the characteristic of an age in which, how we must present the gospel to the people.

This book contains seven chapters. In first chapter he begins with the Thomas Aquinas and he states Thomas Aquinas's view the will of man was fallen, but the intellect was not. From this incomplete view of the biblical fall flowed all the subsequent difficulties. Man's intellect became autonomous. From the basis of this autonomous principle, philosophy also became free, and was separated from revelation. Aquinas’ view of nature and grace did not involve a complete discontinuity between them. When nature is made autonomous it soon ends up by devouring God, grace, freedom and ultimately man. In chapter two he states the Reformation accepted the biblical picture of a total fall. He traces a line through the renaissance, the reformation, the development of science, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, contemporary existentialism, into contemporary culture.  The whole man had been made by God, but now the whole man is fallen, including his intellect. He adds, "What the Reformation tells us, therefore, is that God has spoken in the Scriptures concerning both the upstairs and the downstairs. He adds, the biblical position, says that when the historic space-time fall took place, it affected the whole man on the basis of Christ's work there is redemption for the whole man this meant a lordship of Christ in culture. So it means that Christ is equally Lord in both areas Grace and Nature.  In chapter three he argues, "Modern scientists insist on a total unity of the downstairs and the upstairs, and the upstairs disappears. Neither God not freedom are there any more everything is in the machine. In fact, love no longer exists significance no longer exists in the old 'upstairs; nothing exists. He observes, "I call this line in the diagram the Line of Despair What is this despair? It arises from the abandonment of the hope of a unified answer for knowledge and life. In chapter four he is tracing the hope of a connecting link between the two spheres has disappeared. There is no permeation or interchange there is a complete dichotomy between the upper and lower storeys. This is what it means to say man is dead. He was always dead but did not know enough to know that he was dead. He also brings Kierkegaard’s two existentialism secular existentialism and religious existentialism. It is this that separates modern man from Reformation man, who actually possessed a rational unity above and below the line on the basis of the content of the biblical revelation. In chapter five he addressing nature had come to represent determinism the machine, with man in the hopeless situation of being caught in the machine. The universe is not rational, it is an impersonal machine and man a part of that. But man is a personality and personhood according to Schaffer cannot be found in a mechanistic universe. As man strives to express his freedom in his autonomous fashion, much, though not all, of his art becomes meaningless and ugly.  Furthermore in chapter six he continuing the subject of the leap modern man has long since abandoned "grace" or "heaven" or "Scriptures" as the principle of experiential unification, he has nothing left but despair. So now, man is trying mysticism, pornography, drugs, death and other forms of ways to 'leap' into something else that can provide meaning. In the last chapter he says, in spite of all the evil work which is dominating over modern age. To answer the entire problem Christianity is only can stand and answer the despaired of the human being.  

However this book is a good challenge for the modern Christians in the world where the art and philosophy have dominating so it is very important to know that how we should present the gospel to the evil practice world I recommend this book to all of the Christian ministers, especially to the Evangelist and Christian Apologetics.