Book Reviews of The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus

A wonderful book for anyone from a new Christian burdened with questions to an experienced apologist looking for a way to share the faith to a non-Christian with an academic interest in the Christian perspective. It's clear, written in a language those unfamiliar with Christian terms can understand, unoffensive and catering to those with genuine skepticism and a thirst for information. I'd recommend it for anyone, whatever their religion, as a good resource for understand the Christian worldview and tackling difficult theological questions.

The evidences for Christ and His claims are all there. The only choice is whether to ignore them or not. Strobel brings it all together in a concise, convincing manner to fortify the position that Christianity is not "blind" faith, as some would call it, but instead is a "reasonable" faith, based on solid, unquestionable evidence.

Whether you are simply curious about the Christian faith, or an outright skeptic, this book will give you the facts.

This is an AMAZING book, written from a factual and no-nonsense point of view. If you have questions, Lee has answers.

I thought I was getting an impartial account of what we know about the historical Jesus. The author spent 1/2 the book explaining just how impartial he was (because of his training in journalism - gag), and the other half being a transparent advocate of his world view. Lame.

A wonderful book. Is shows what evidence there is for Jesus. A good book for those who are uncertain if Jesus was real or not.

This is an excellent book that answers many questions about the validity of the NEW TESTAMENT. Lee Strobel cross-examines a dozen experts in different fields to answer the question \"Is there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God?\". It will make the skeptic in you believe.

Thought the book was really lame. If you are already a believer in his "sources" then it makes sense. But, if you are looking for new evidence, it's not here. There's nothing new or mind changing in this book.

I enjoyed the book, however I would have liked to have seen some of the other research mentioned in the book by the "experts" he went to visit and to ask his questions. I was not aware of these experts before the book, but again, I wasn't looking for a reason to believe. It was easy to convince me, I believed before I read the book.

It seems like he got the answers that convinced him, and that's wonderful.

I still say a person has to be willing to believe before they will believe.

This book will not "make" anyone believe.

Stephanie

I caught Lee Stroebel's first "expert" in an outright lie in the first chapter and didn't read any further. The first expert says things about history that have been debunked by reputable scholars in both the secular and religious world. If the first interview contains falsehoods, I can only assume that the rest of the book is full of lies and half-truths as well. Anyone who REALLY knows history knows that dr. Blomburg, the first "expert" (who obviously is a fundamentalist who wants to convert people) is blatantly wrong and probably knows it.

I didn't bother to read further. This book is full of crap.

Excellent!!

Great read!

While the works for the individual "interviewees" in this book have merit on their own, the premise of this book is that they are being interviewed by a hard-nosed investigative reporter. The fact is, they are being interviewed by an author who already agrees with their premises before he speaks with them, and postures as asking the hard questions, while really he is lobbing softballs. Additionally, the book fails to live up to the author's claim of investigative reporting, by refraining to interview even one person with counter claims or alternate perspectives. Overall, the book is a failure because it does not live up to the premises it claims for itself.

I'm a Christian and I cannot stand this book. It's filled with fake answers that don't really answer the questions. If an athiest or any Christian asked you these questions and you read him/her the answers from this book, he/she would have no trouble stumping you and pointing out how your answers from this book are "sunday school" answers that only would satisfy an unknowing child. Waste of money.

Instead, read the books written by people challenging the bible, then find your own answers. Like if you read Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus and other books, then go find the truth. The Bible may not be infallible, but that doesn't mean God isn't true. When you read up on Bible/early Christian history, the "pat" Christian answers fail. When you learn Constantine the Great worshipped Apollo and set himself up as god, then you know he was no great Christian leader. But the Bible and "churchianity history" doesn't have to be true. God still is true. These things were done by corrupt, power-hungry man. But God is still real. Find the real God. God beyond human error and human writings.

excellent

I found this book to be babyish and self-serving. I have a strong belief in God and wanted to read this book to find out more about the evidence out there on Jesus. I think I could have easily read the work of each of the folks he interviewed and found out what he found out. He tries to make it seem like he did all of this investigative interviewing and that he is so much more discriminating in his information gathering than most people but all he did was go and talk to various research professors and write down what they said. Then to make it even more annoying, at the end of each chapter he has several reflective questions for the reader about the information and its results on their belief in God. It didn't leave me with the impression that he tries to set which is that he is writing the book from the perspective of an unbiased reporter/attorney pulling out the truth regardless of his stance on it. I did learn many things that I did not know previously but I found the authors writing style very condescending which made reading it difficult and took me longer than most books to finish.

The copy I have listed is brand new.

I love this whole series. I am always recommending these books to my friends who are on the fence.

IT WAS FOOD FOR THOUGHT, INTERESTING THOUGH.