This expanded edition doubles the original book's scope, with new chapters on beauty, hell, free will, the biblical canon, archaeology, the identity of Jesus, Pascal's Wager, postmodern truth, near-death experience, and the pastoral shape of doubt.
Each chapter states the skeptical case as strongly and fairly as space allows — Hume, Russell, Mackie, Ehrman, Dawkins are formidable voices, not easy targets — then develops a serious philosophical, biblical, historical, or scientific response, and closes by asking what difference the answer makes to a human life.
It was written not for the already convinced but for the student wrestling with a philosophy syllabus, the parent facing a child's question about suffering, and the believer whose faith survived Sunday school but not graduate school.