Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
Part 1 The Legitimacy of Apologelics
1 Conciliar Apologetics and Interreligious Dialogue 17
2 Papal Apologetics: From John XXIII to Pope Francis 27
3 Faith, Reason, and Postmodern Relativism 40
Part 2 The Existence of God
4 Knowing That God Exists: Retrieving the Teaching of Dei Filius 65
5 Thomas Aquinas and the Moral Argument 82
6 Fine Tuning, Atheist Criticism, and the Fifth Way 102
Part 3 God Reveals Himself in Jesus
7 For Us and Our Salvation 119
8 Access to the Historical Jesus 132
9 Resurrecting Jesus and Critical Historiography 149
10 Assessing the Evidence for Jesus' Resurrection 169
Part 4 The Relevance of Christian Belief
11 Prospects for Developing the Via Empirica 197
12 Does Christianity Cause Violence? 215
Part 5 Jesus Christ and the Religious Others
13 The "Scandal of Particularity" 231
14 The Soteriological Problem of Evil 243
15 Knitter's Pluralism and Christian Orthodoxy 255
Conclusion 271
Bibliography 275