No Doubt About It: The Case for Christianity

by Winfried Corduan

“I am convinced that faith and reason, if used properly, will arrive at the identical truth. This conviction is, in turn, premised on the fact that all truth originates with God and points to Him” (21). Corduan argues that the Christian should question his faith—and that to do such is not faithless, but evidence of a growing faith. Ultimately, he argues that the Christian must do so in order to find the answers he needs to be able to give a defense for his faith, as the Bible demands.

No Doubt About It is a fairly typical book on apologetics, although it approaches the subject nearly completely from a philosophical point of view. Even the historical evidence he brings to the table is prefaced with a chapter examining the trustworthiness (or lack thereof) of history. Even so, Corduan has attempted to write this book for the non-specialist, so that people not well versed in philosophy can follow the arguments and reach the clear conclusions. I found his following his reasoning to be relatively easy (and I’m far from a philosophy major), and only rarely felt like he was stretching to get from one premise to his desired conclusion.

Each chapter begins with a short series of vignettes designed to illustrate the problem(s) being approached in the chapter. Then, the subject is met head on. Finally, the chapter concludes by returning to the vignettes and providing some kind of solution to those problems with the information discussed in the chapter. This certainly provides something of a practical approach to philosophy that many non-philosophers who read this book will surely find useful.

Should you read it? Well, that depends largely on where you are in your own study of apologetics. If you’ve never studied it and it interests you, I’d probably suggest you try something a little lighter first (Dear Agnos, perhaps) and then progress on to this volume. But if you’re well versed in apologetics, it will most likely offer you little with which you’re not already familiar and you can probably skip it without missing too much, if anything.