The Case For Miracles by Lee Strobel

The subtitle reads A Journalist Investigates Evidence for the Supernatural.

Strobel begins Part one of the book by interviewing Dr. Michael Shermer a skeptic looking at the case against miracles.

In part two of the book Strobel interviews Dr. Craig Keener an expert on the subject of miracles. They explore Biblical and historical miracles as well as looking at documented modern miracles.

Part three of the book is comprised of two interviews one with Dr. Candy Gunther Brown who weighs in on the STEP study which examines the effects of prayer and Tom Doyle who talks the miraculous dreams and visions of Jesus experienced in the Muslim world.

Part four of the book is two more interviews one with Dr. Michael G. Strauss who talked about the fine-tuning of the universe and the miraculous embedded in nature which points to God as creator. The second interview is with J. Warner Wallace a cold case detective who talks about the evidence of the resurrection.

The last part of the book part five includes two interviews one with Dr. Roger E. Olson who talks about the de-emphasis of the supernatural amongst American evangelicals who seem to be embarrassed by the supernatural. The second interview is with Dr. Douglas R. Groothuis who talks about when miracles don’t happen.

Strobel build a strong case for the miraculous.

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