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Volume 15, Number 8
   October 2004   



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Cover Story

   

The Evangelizing Power of Beauty

The defense of the faith and the winning of converts through the power of the beautiful can be called cultural apologetics, or the apologetics of beauty. The author explains his passion to evangelize the culture through the power of the culture itself.

   
By Joseph Pearce
 

Feature Article

   

Five Ways to Make the Case for God

Options in Evangelical Apologetics

How are we to defend the faith? What is the right or best method for giving a reason for the hope that we have in Christ? Here is an outline of the five major methods that Evangelicals have developed for making the case that Christianity is true.

   
By Steve Cowan
 

Feature Article

   

Cowan’s "Five Ways": A Catholic Perspective

In Catholic circles it has been standard to argue first that you should believe in God, then that you should be a Christian, and then that you should be a Catholic. A Catholic take on the five methods outlined in the preceding article.

   
By Jimmy Akin
 

Feature Article

   

How to Be Offensive (without Being Offensive)

In conversations with others about the faith, because the topic is of paramount importance, things can sometimes get a little hot. So how can you be aw-fensive without being uh-fensive? Simple: Let the other person evangelize you.

   
By John Martignoni
 

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A Political People
By Karl Keating

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Limiting the Harm of Abortion Laws
By Jimmy Akin

The Fathers Know Best

   

What Catholic Means

Damascus Road

   

The Soul Is Not Just Some Metaphysical Idea
By Jeff Miller

Classic Apologetics

   

Why I Am a Catholic
By G. K. Chesterton

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