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Book Review: Why I Still Believe

Boot, Joe. Why I Still Believe: (Hint: It’s the Only Way the World Makes Sense). Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006. 159 pages.

The Christian faith is more than an intellectual or emotional assent to believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is an objective, rational faith in Jesus Christ. First Peter 3:15 calls upon Christians to be ready to give a defense of why they believe. This is the practice of apologetics. Joe Boot goes one step further explaining why he still believes by sharing his life story as a Christian while providing a rational defense along the way.

Joe Boot is an apologist, educator, author and pastor. He worked with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) for seven years as an apologist in the United Kingdom and Canada. For five of those years he was the executive director of RZIM in Canada. He is the founding president of the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity in Toronto where he currently serves as senior pastor of Westminster Chapel.

Boot’s approach to apologetics is rooted in the presuppositional method. [click to continue…]

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