"In addition to serving, like the rest of theology in general, as an expression of our loving God with all our minds, apologetics specifically serves to show to unbelievers the truth of the Christian faith, to confirm that faith to believers, and to reveal and explore the connections between Christian doctrine and other truths. This is a war which we cannot afford to lose. Christianity is being attacked from all sides as irrational or outmoded, and millions of students, our future generation of leaders have absorbed this viewpoint. The average Christian does not realize that there is an intellectual war going on in the universities and in the professional journals and scholarly societies. Finally, he provides bibliographical information on the literature cited or recommended for future reading."Evangelicals have been living on the periphery of responsible intellectual existence. Third, he shares some thoughts and personal experiences on applying this material in evangelism. Second, he presents and defends his personal views on the topic, seeking to develop a Christian apologetic on the point. For every topic, Craig first outlines the historical background of the issue in question to see how past thinkers have dealt with it. Some of the most frequently discussed today include de Scriptura sacra (doctrine of Scripture), de creatione (doctrine of creation), de peccato (doctrine of sin), de Christo ( Christology), de gratia ( soteriology), de ecclesia ( ecclesiology), and de novissimis ( eschatology). The book is structured around the loci communes of systematic theology. In 2008, Craig released the third edition of Reasonable Faith, which featured mild revisions to the previous version. It began as a set of lectures for Craig's own class on apologetics. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics is a 1994 book by the philosopher William Lane Craig.
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