The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus (1998) is a book by Christian apologist and former journalist Lee Strobel supporting the thesis that Jesus of Nazareth was the unique son of God. In it, he conducts a series of investigative interviews of Christian scholars and experts, whose replies seek to refute many of the typical objections to Christianity. The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association aw...
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The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus (1998) is a book by Christian apologist and former journalist Lee Strobel supporting the thesis that Jesus of Nazareth was the unique son of God. In it, he conducts a series of investigative interviews of Christian scholars and experts, whose replies seek to refute many of the typical objections to Christianity. The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association awarded it the Gold Medallion Book Award.
In the introduction, Strobel explains that for most of his life he had been an atheist. His wife's sudden announcement that she had become a Christian, and his subsequent desire to uncover the roots of what he considered to be pleasant changes in her personality, motivated him to investigate Christianity. After a two year personal research project, he concluded that the evidence of history, science, philosophy, and psychology "point toward the unthinkable," and this resulted in his own conversion.
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