PART ONE: WHAT IS APOLOGETICS AND WHY DO WE NEED IT? / Mark Mittelberg: An apologetic for apologetics -- Josh McDowell: A relevant apologetic -- John Warwick Montgomery: Apologetics for the 21st century -- H. Wayne House: A biblical argument for balanced apologetics -- E. Calvin Beisner: The character of the good apologist -- PART TWO: CULTURAL AND THEOLOGICAL ISSUES IN APOLOGETICS Norman L. Geisler: The essentials of the christian faith -- J. P. Moreland: Postmodernism and truth -- Francis J. Beckwith: Christians, politics, and the separation of church and state -- Louis Markos: Aslan in the public square -- Scott Klusendorf: Abortion, research cloning, and beyond -- Alan W. Gomes: The value of historical theology for apologetics -- Chad V. Meister: Open theism PART THREE: DEFENDING CHRISTIAN THEISM / Winfried Corduan: The cosmological argument -- Miguel Angel Endara: The design argument -- Sean Choi: The transcendental argument -- R. Douglass Geivett: God and the evidence of evil -- Richard G. Howe: The New Testament, Jesus Christ and the Da Vinci code -- Gary Habermas: The resurrection of Jesus and agnosticism PART FOUR: WORLD RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS / Kurt Van Gorden: Mormonism -- Jim Valentine and Eric Pement: Jehovah's Witnesses and the doctrine of salvation --Ron Rhodes: Oneness Pentecostals and the doctrine of God -- Richard G. Howe: Witchcraft --Jon Trott: Satanism -- David J. Hesselgrave: Reasoning faith and global missions -- Douglas Groothuis: Postscript: A manifesto for Christian apologetics.