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080 - Why Believe with Neil Shenvi

Jun 27, 20221 hr
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Episode description

In this episode Brian Auten & Chad Gross interview Neil Shenvi about his new book Why Believe?: A Reasoned Approach to Christianity. We love this book and it was a great conversation unpacking his approach and some of the arguments from the book.

0:43 - Impressions of the book
3:36 - Neil’s crazy bio that we didn’t understand
5:19 - Welcoming Neil
7:07 - Neil’s background
9:58 - How Neil became a Christian
14:00 - Isn’t apologetics just an exercise in confirmation bias?
20:18 - Discussing the structure of the book
24:30 - Unpacking the trilemma argument
27:25 - Addressing the best atheistic arguments
30:08 - The argument for Christianity from the Gospel
37:43 - Objections to the argument?
41:51 - Addressing hiddenness objections
51:16 - The truth-seeking argument https://a315.co/TruthArgument
57:43 - Neil’s present work and focus

Neil Shenvi’s bio:
https://a315.co/NeilShenvi

About the book:
https://a315.co/AboutWhyBelieve

Get is on Amazon here:
https://a315.co/WhyBelieveBook

Audiobook here:
https://a315.co/WhyBelieveAudiobook

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