This world is a battlefield in the arena of ideas. The prize is the
heart and mind of humankind. In this book, Ronald Nash outlines the
Christian way of looking at God, self, and the world. He holds that
worldview up against the tests of reason, logic, and experience,
particularly discussing the problems of evil and the alleged "nonsense"
of the historic Christian doctrines and of Jesus' incarnation and
resurrection. He finds the Christian worldview sound and urges
Christians to equip themselves intellectually to defend the faith on
that battlefield. He particularly hits the attractions to our generation
of naturalism and the New Age movement, pointing out their weaknesses
and pitfalls as well as those of older worldviews. "Christian theism,"
he writes, "is a system that commends itself to the whole person"; but
he stresses that a great difference exists between "belief that" and
"belief in."