What difference does it make?

DOES CHRISTIANITY REALLY WORK?
By William Edgar
Christian Focus
206 pages £7.99
ISBN: 978 1 781 917 756

This book is part of the Big Ten: Critical Questions Answered apologetics series edited by James N. Anderson and Greg Welty.

In this book Edgar, Professor of Apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, addresses the question of whether the Christian faith really works. In answering that larger question Edgar addresses numerous stumbling blocks as follows: Haven’t Christians been guilty of corruption and abuse? Haven’t Christians been involved with the Crusades, slavery, and apartheid? If God is real why don’t prayers get answered, and why do Christians seem to make so little spiritual progress?

Care and wisdom

Edgar approaches these difficult questions with pastoral care and theological wisdom. He acknowledges the ongoing reality of sin as the reason behind personal and corporate failure. He also points out the many instances of good accomplished by those with an explicitly Christian worldview – the abolition of slavery, health care, women’s rights, art, music, social reform and much much more. The book is very accessible and easy to read and it contains many great stories which illustrate and support his basic argument. This book would be great to hand out to friends who were perhaps interested but sceptical about the claims of Christianity and the record of Christians.