Table of Contents
Foreword Thomas Schirrmacher 13
Preface 15
Acknowledgments 17
Part 1 Legal Apologetics Per Se 19
1 How Much Evidence to Justify Religious Conversion? 21
2 The Criminal Standard of Proof 35
3 Legal Evidence for the Truth of the Faith 47
4 A New Approach to the Apologetic for Christ's Resurrection by Way of Wigmore's Juridical Analysis of Evidence 55
5 Legal Hermeneutics and the Interpretation of Scripture 69
6 Higher Criticism and the Legal Standard for Expert Testimony 81
7 Law and Justice 93
8 Why Human Rights Are Impossible Without Religion 129
Part 2 Thinking Like a Lawyer in the Theological Realm 145
9 Artificial Intelligence and Societal Transformation 147
10 The Last Meow: An Indeterminacy Argument for God's Existence, with a Further Glance at Schrödinger's Cat 155
11 Apologetics Insights from the Thought of I. J. Good 161
12 Miracle Evidence: How Philosophers Go Wrong 171
13 The Heritage of the Reformation - and Why It Should Be Defended 177
14 The Apologetic Thrust of Lutheran Theology 191
15 Christian Apologetics in the Light of the Lutheran Confessions 209
16 The Kloha Catastrophe 227
17 Christian Concern UK: Evangelicals contra Irreligion in an Increasingly Secular Britain 273
18 A Non-Politically-Correct Remedy to Muslim Terrorist Immigration 281
19 Religious Fraud: Its Etiology and Prevention 293
20 Doctrinal Fidelity in the Light of Comparative Professional Negligence 303
Part 3 Short Essays on Critical Topics 313
21 Lesser-of-Evils 315
22 Reflections on John 7:53-8:11 319
23 Secularism and Stupidity in the Fast Lane 321
24 "Intolerant Religion" As Threat To "Tolerant-Liberal Democracy"? 323
25 The New Age of Christian Martyrdom 327
26 "Ararat," the Armenians, and Missionary Doctor Clarence Ussher 329
27 Martin Scorsese's Silence 333
28 Evangelical Chauvinism 337
29 American Law and Freedom of Expression 341
30 Hate Speech 345
31 Check Your References 349
32 Beliefs Have Consequences - in Spades! 353
33 Why English Theology and Churchmanship Are Hopelessly Weak 357
34 Parabolic Interpretation 361
35 Two Mathematical Excursions 367
36 Regeneration: Biological, Computational, Theological 373
Index of Names 383