What's So Great About Christianity

This book is an excellent counterweight to the horde of pro-atheist books that have appeared on the best-seller's list over the past couple of years. D'Souza hoists Dawkins, Harris and company on their own petards, using rational arguments and not appeals to divine revelation to demonstrate that belief is more plausible than unbelief. Actually, few of D'Souza's arguments are new, but he has a knack for expressing knotty philosphical problems in easily accesible language. His explanation of Kant's critique of pure reason is the clearest and simplest I've ever heard. Yet lurking behind this facile and witty style is a razor-sharp intellect. D'Souza also has an ability to shine a spotlight on the inconsistencies in the atheist's approach. It's no wonder they despise debating him in public--he runs circles around them. Put this one on the top of your reading list!

I was expecting a better book from D'Souza, but instead got many of the same old theistic arguments, with some astonishingly absurd additions, such as: the Inquisition wasn't so bad, Genesis is actually an accurate description of the Big Bang, and Christianity is responsible for everything that is great about western civilization (including science!). He never provides a convincing argument. Towards the beginning, he writes about how Christianity is growing in the less developed world, as if that is proof of its merit. Should I be impressed that uneducated people in backwards nations are embracing Christianity while more and more civilized and intelligent people in the developed world are abandoning it?

After spending a lot of time on belief in God in general, he finally attempts to explain why Christianity is better than other religions at the end, and he fails miserably.

I didn't really expect to be converted, but I really thought he might make a more convincing and articulate case.

I certainly wish there were more books like this one. Or that they were easier to find. It seems unfair that you're able to find Dawkins' "The God Delusion" even in small grocery stores, while this competent counterweight can only be found in online stores.

D'Souza sheds light on true Christianity as it has appeared throughout history though little attention is paid to the Bible. While this might disappoint certain sola scriptura enthusiasts, this is actually the strength of the book. He's debating the Atheists on their own premises. Mostly, he mentions Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Sagan.

I enjoyed every page of this book even if I didn't agree with all of the beliefs he emphatically defended. For instance, he maintains that evolution is true even though Darwinism as an ideology is not, and he believes this fit with the Bible. Also, he later argues that we must have an eternal soul. The teaching that we "are" souls rather than "have" souls is growing among evangelicals, and this may be considered a more particular doctrine that need not be discussed with Atheists.

Yet, I believe that D'Souza did justice to "mere Christianity". D'Souza is a catholic. I'm a Seventh Day Adventist. Yet, I was very encouraged by this book, and I would recommend it to anyone who needs to see what's so great about Christianity whether they're sceptic or seeking, or both.

When I first decided to pick up this book and buy it I was a little worried but after the first few chapters I really got into it, the author Dinesh really knows his stuff, the way he goes into detail about evolution and Darwin, is simply amazing. This man has really out done himself. He points out what Christianity has done not only for us Christians but what the faith has done for us as a country and as a world, and how it even continues to grow more today than any other time in the worlds history. Another thing that caught my attention about this book is how he describes the true history of the Crusades. Another major thing that Dinesh points out and is not afraid to do many times in his book, is atheists, spinning their so called logic into terms, and actually testing them with questions not even Darwinism can explain. I fully recommend this book to any believer and non believer alike.

A very good book! Having grown up in a Christian home, it was interesting reading a book about my faith in a way that is presented as if the author wasn't a Christian. It takes on the major "questions" of Christianity presented today, and answers each one, one at a time with grace, panache and authority. It is and isn't a stretch to see Mr. D'Souza as this generation's C.S. Lewis - he can speak about Christianity in a very real way, but he doesn't intellectualize the Lewis did, and that is a good thing, lest people who read his work think that he trying to copy or imitate Lewis.

I read a review that Mr. D'Souza got the title wrong - that what is great is Christ, not Christianity. I respect the right of opinion, so here is mine: They are both great, and Mr. D'Souza got the title exactly right. Christianity is the way of knowing Christ, living your life for Christ, and becoming more like Christ. I believe the other reviewer had a problem with the format that Christianity is presented in; that is, the Church. Many people say that they have no problem with God or Christ, but it's the Church or Organized Religion that they have a problem with. Because of people, and the stupid stuff we do, and the mistakes we make, they cannot be part of a Church, or Organized Religion. They are missing the point, that we make mistakes, which is why we need Christ in the first place.

Very good book, for both the Christian, and the non-Christian.

Excellent book, I wholeheartedly recommend it to Christians and nonbelievers alike...with one exception. Not all Christians believe in the Big Bang theory. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah, it ignores certain "scientific" facts. But there is no more proof for it than anything else. Fascinating theory...maybe it's true? I believe it's not, and no one has been able to convince me otherwise even though I am always open to them to try.

Overall, this book is excellent. Really makes you think. He does a great job of showing just how dumb atheists are, how self-righteous and arrogant they can be. If you must boast, boast in Christ. Not yourself.

I have read many Christian apologetical books and this book places in my top three. As I read it, I felt amazed with D’Souza’s intellect. He presents original, brilliant, and well-developed rebuttals to several common atheist and secular criticisms of Christianity, at times by showing that the atheist critique is loosely based on facts and is actually just liberal, anti-Christian spin. In that way, this book provides some artillery for Christians who find themselves on the defense against non-believers’ challenges to their faith. This book is also great for those who are seeking information to overcome an intellectual hurdle to Christianity.

D'Souza doesn't consider himself to be a Christian fundamentalist and you can see that in some of his viewpoints, e.g. evolution. Yet his love of Christ and Christianity is apparent and inspiring. If you would enjoy a book that puts a new spin on the current topics of the atheist vs. Christian debate, read this.

An absolutely wonderful book when read in toto. What is poor matters little, that being the chapters on science and how they relate to Christianity. But the beautiful thing is there is no war between science and religion, one does not disprove the other, and they work in harmony together.

What I personally am starting to see is that Christianity is a thing of the heart, a personal relationship, a personal, psychological, thing between us and our God. The connection and belief rests within us. One cannot ever prove from the outside that we are sad or happy, they can only tell us we are crying or smiling: the physical, material and biological. The joy we feel inside is only ever ours and can never be truly explained. Only Christianity offers the relationship between us -- you and I -- and *our* God.

It is in this sense that Christians most confess to atheists that we feel what you cannot see, and therefore we believe. Try and explain sight to the blind and sound to the deaf. Make use of your heart and soul and feel a spiritual sight and sound in Christ.

Read a couple of reviews and some remarks that the author exercises a new manner of being apologetic.
This book is anything but apologetic.
It mentions though Christian mistakes. I haven't till date found any other religion or non believers, comprising of the same moiety of human beings with same humanly potentials, ever having accepted any mistakes committed.
Yet the book is a celebration of a faith - the Christian one - that has instituted world ethics and standards. People of all religions are allowed to live free and practice their religions in so-called Christian nations. This is not de facto, in countries not of predominant Christian faith; who are not as charitable to their minority Christians, a charity which though they avail of, in international standards of conduct and behaviour. How to say: Christianity, in it's broadness, civilises. The book provides evidence for this. The Centre though is Christ.

An ok book on apologetix, thought maybe he stretched a little to much to make some things work. A different reason based approach to the objections of atheists, that was very interesting.