Welcome, as always, to the podcast, Reasonable Faith with Dr. William Lane Craig.

I'm Kevin Harris in studio with Dr. Craig.

Dr. Randall Rouser is a systematic and analytic theologian who has been involved in a polygenics

ministry in teaching for many years.

You can read more about him, check out his professorship, his writing podcast at RandallRouser.com.

Rouser is spelled R-A-U-S-E-R.

He recently talked about your book Reasonable Faith, Bill, and talked about why he doesn't

recommended as a curriculum for churches.

As always, Randall brings up some interesting issues, so let's listen to a few clips from

his video on this.

Here's Dr. Rouser.

I was approached by a pastor recently who was looking at starting a Christian apologetics

course for his church, and he said to me that he wanted to use the text Reasonable Faith

by William Lane Craig.

Now this text has been around in various iterations since the 1980s.

I believe, as I recall, that it's based upon Craig's book Christian apologetics from

the 1980s.

In terms of the form reasonable faith, as you can see here, it has at least three editions,

and I have used it myself in apologetics classrooms for 15 years or so.

So it is a very solid textbook.

I did, however, advise him that I didn't think this was actually the best book to use in

a Christian apologetics context for lay Christians.

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