Content of the book “CHRISTIANITY AND ITS CHALLENGES”.

CHAPTER I-GENERAL INTRODUCTION
DEFINITION OF CONCEPTS
CHAPTER II -A PANORAMIC LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY AND ITS CHALLENGES
I-Before Christianity
I-1: The establishment of the Conflict
I-2: The Conflict, From the First Human Birth to the Wanderings in the Desert
III-The Intertestamental Period
IV-A The Era of Christianity
V-The Church Facing the Challenge of Globalization
CHAPTER III – THE REASONS FOR THE SPIRITUAL DECLINE OF THE CHURCH
I-Spiritual blindness
II-Persecution
III-Seduction
IV-The Division
V-The Heresies
VI- The influence of postmodernity on the church
VII-The Challenges of the Third Millennium
VIII-Mental Manipulation
CHAPTER IV – CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THEOLOGICAL METHODS AND ARGUMENTS AGAINST CHRISTIANITY
I-The Response to Objections Against Christianity
1-On the existence of God
1-1: The Cosmological Argument
1-2: The Teleological Argument
1-3: The Anthropological argument

2-On the Trinity
3-Infallibility of the Bible
4-Propaganda as a Tool Against Rational Thought and the Christian Faith
5-Mental Manipulation Techniques (Seduction)
5-1: Manipulation of the Mind Through Repeated Exposure to Propaganda
5-2: Manipulation of the Mind by Circumventing Reason
5-3: Bad Reputation Techniques
5-4: Antidotes to Mental Manipulation
5-5: The Results of Mental Manipulation
5-6: Strategies Used for Mind Manipulation
6-Debate Techniques
6-1: The existence of tricks and the reasons
6-2: Multiple Meanings and Dishonest Tricks
6-3: Debaters’ Tricks
7-Suggestive Questions
7-1: What is a Leading Question?
7-2: What Are Suggestive/Non-Suggestive Questions?
7-3: The Need to Ask Leading Questions
7-4: Types of Questions
7-5: Why Do People Ask Bad Questions?
7-6: Formulating Suggestive Questions
7-7: Why Learn to Ask Leading Questions?
7-8: How to Formulate Suggestive Questions
8- How did the Church defend its faith throughout history?
CHAPTER V: THEOLOGICAL PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE CHURCH
I-RETURN TO THE BIBLICAL MODEL OF CHRISTIANITY
1-In the Traces of the Primitive Church
1-1: The Fire of Spiritual Awakening
1-2: A Return to Holiness
1-3: Christ Our Model
II-THE THEOLOGICAL TRAINING OF CHRISTIAN LEADERS
2-1: Need for Training of Christian Leaders
2-2: An Apologetic Approach
2-3: Biblical Rhetorical Discourses
III-THE USE OF RHETORIC IN REFUTATION AND EVANGELIZATION IV-THEOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT OF THE CHURCH
1-1-Returning to Doctrinal Balance
2-The Church Must Be Equipped With The Apologetic Tool
3- Pentecostal Ministries
4-The Great Commission
5-Some Rules To Remove Apparent Contradictions
CHAPTER VI-GENERAL CONCLUSION
References
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Extract of the book “CHRISTIANITY AND ITS CHALLENGES”.

There are challenges met and succeeded. Let’s think about biblical renewal. The Bible has made its way into so many homes and there are Bible groups everywhere. And Sunday services in multitudes of Christian congregations or small denominational groups about fifty years ago. Christians are active in churches everywhere and, for many years, pastoral care has no longer been the business of a single one-man band, the priest or the pastor or the others.

God alone knows the number of reflection and prayer groups that meet every evening in homes; a number of new spirituality movements are emerging; everywhere there is a deep desire for prayer and even mysticism. On the shelves of bookstores and in libraries, a whole literature of spirituality followed the wave of the new theology with the aim of spreading the Gospel and edifying the members of these different congregations. But is it really negative?

To shed light on the subject, we opted for the critical plan. During our work, we will devote the first chapter to the introduction and definitions in order to understand the different concepts of our theme.

In the second chapter, we will address the subject of the panoramic view of the history of Christianity and its challenges. Chapter three deals with the subject “The reasons for the spiritual decline of the Church”. A critical assessment of theological methods and arguments against Christianity will be made in chapter four. In chapter five, we will propose theological prescriptions for the restoration of the church. It is in chapter six that we will mark the end of our scientific work.

Jérémie TCHINDEBE

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