The author has such a wonderful way of describing a person, place or feeling. ... such a unique, touching story!

I was in the middle of reading another book when I first came across Soundless. Thinking that I would just read the lead sentence to see if it grabbed me, I ended up setting my other book completely aside until I finished Soundless. It was compelling from start to finish! I recommend it as a wonderful quick read.

Lane's Lexicon is by far the biggest and most comprehensive dictionary of Arabic terms translated into the English Language. Arabic, the richest language on earth is the Language by which God revealed his Qur'an in order to teach mankind that which we did not know. Only because God has preserved His Qur'an through it's memorisation and committed study at the hands of Muslim scholars and their students the Arabic Language has too been preserved. Modern Arabic still depends on this Classical Qur'anic Arabic for it's basis and point of reference.For this reason Lane's Lexicon is indispensable in the study and translation of Arabic texts.

I found this book ot be an excellent asset to my collection of modern british art. I thought that the large amount of content was covered thouroghly, but not drawn out to get stale(just like the artwork itself, discussed). This is a very important book because it recaps all of what is happening with the yBa movement in the artworld. This book is for anyone who wants to be on top of the world of modern art.

This book is not for laymen (which I am). In fact, it assumes you can read Greek. Craig enters into discussion in New Testament Criticism, with full awareness of the work of top scholars, to evaluate the evidence for the ressurection of Christ. His arguments are extremely logical and compelling.

This is one of Craig's first books and, I believe, one of his more interesting books. Craig Begins with Plato and walks through the cosmology and metaphysics of Aristotle, the Arabic philosophers (i.e. Kalam), Jewish philosophers, Aquinas (i.e. five ways, etc.), John Duns Scotus, Spinoza, and Leibniz. He covers each of these thinkers views on cosmology, creation, metaphysics, and their various arguments in support of their philosophies. Craig's writing style is direct and easy to follow which makes for a good read. The contents of the book are not too complicated and thus Craig has (or had rather)the potential of a fairly wide audience. Some of the strengths of the book, I thought, were the chapters that dealt with the Arabic philosophers (this may be since I do not know a whole lot about this area of philosophy and this section was very helpful), and the chapter titled "Typology of Cosmological Arguments." In this latter chapter Craig goes through certain arguments that have arisen against philosophers such as Hume and Kant, and then he delineates the types of arguments that have been used throughout the history of philosophy (i.e. kalam, Leibnizian, etc.). He discusses errors that have arisen regarding certain cosmological arguments, explains how they occurred, etc. Of course, Craig is in favor of the kalam cosmological argument, and this can be seen sprinkled throughout the text (and the chapter on the Arabic philosophers is the longest in the whole book). Nonetheless, this is a nice assessment of several various arguments in the history of philosophy regarding the cosmological argument. If you can get Amazon to find this book you will not be disappointed. I highly recommend this book. I wish someone would reprint it.

This book covers five arguments for the existence of God:
-The Cosmological Argument
-The Moral Argument
-The Argument from the Evidence of the Bible
-The Argument from Personal Experience
and possibly -The Argument from Design [but I'm not sure, it's a while since I read it]

These are prefaced by a brief introduction in which Craig argues, quite sensibly, that there is no such thing as 100% proof- his aim through the book is merely to show that there is enough evidence to reasonably believe that God is there.
Up to date and with a good list for further reading, it surprised me how clear, detailed and focused this small booklet is. You can read it in an hour, and understand not only the basics of the arguments covered, but also brief answers to common objections.
One friend complained that he wasn't clear on some points: for example, he passes over Stephen Hawking's analysis of the origin of the universe with a brief sentence. I can only say to that that with the size of the booklet, there would be no point in Craig even attempting to give a comprehensive analysis of such a detailed, complex topic! For anyone reading this booklet and wanting more detailed analyses, I would recommend visiting Craig's website.

Highly recommended for the believer and the skeptic. If you are very familiar with modern apologetics and religious philosophy, though, it is probably not so useful.

A man before his time, H. W. Tilman changed the history of mountaineering by creating an ethic of the small, compact team attempting to summit high peaks and sail remote seas.

Dr. Craig offers a number of compelling reasons for accepting the historicity of both the empty tomb and resurrection of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels. Extensive references to the primary literature are provided for those who wish to do further study. A "must read" title, particularly for those who have questions about the veracity of orthodox Christianity.

David A. Frenz
Duluth, Minnesota, USA

This is by far Craig's most basic book. It was geared to lay people who are possibly suffering or at least asking questions such as, "Why is there suffering and pain?"

Not only does Craig cover the issues and questions surrounding suffering, but he discusses doubt in the life of a believer. He uses certain Scripture references to explain why doubt, while not necessarily a good thing, is not always a bad thing if we hand it over to God (Mark 9:24).

In the chapter titled "Failure," Craig tells the story of his second doctorate, under Pannenberg, where he initially failed his oral examination. The story itself is a very humbling story and actually encouraging in many ways. It is encouraging in the sense that here is a man (Dr. Craig) who is a great thinker in the area of Christian philosophy and apologetics, and yet he too has been confronted with failure. Which demonstrates that failure can happen to anyone, it is how we handle the trials of failure which make the difference in our Christian walk.

This is a nice change of pace from Craig's other more technical and scholarly works. The book itself is fairly easy to find in the used market, so Amazon should not have trouble tracking it down for you. It is well worth the search.

This audio book is of excellent quality, a real pleasure to listen to! Craig's voice is modified in accordance with the parts he deals with each chapter, this avoid montony. Even much better, the audiobook is agreemented by different musics or sounds that serve as transitions between the different parts, and make the book terribly pleasant. The audio realization is professional work. A complete chapter of the paper book has been removed (Blomberg' defense of the historical reliability of the New Testament) as well as a few short passages. The rest is unabriged. The strengths of this book are its accessibility (it is easy to follow, and presented in a direct, style, Craig addresses the listener); the historical approach for each topics (This is missing in most apologetics books. One can notice in particular how Craig masters the deist controversy , he did research on it); its dealing with existential aspect of apologetics ("the human predicament")

The shortcomings are the absence of a global framework, reasoning for integrating the diverse arguments; and one still need to read Geisler's Christian Apologetics for such an integration; Craig's view of Christianity as basically true, his circular reasoning (based on the Bible) about the Holy Spirit, and his uncritical endorsment of Plantinga's nonsensical epistemology ; This book is definitely intended to Christians (Craig tells how to convert non-Christians...), I would not lend to a non-Christian. Strangely, Craig addresses at the end of the album non-Christian listeners, asking them to make a commitment for Christ. But this may be a good thing for nominal Christians.