Does anyone know the story behind Lee Strobel?

Question

He's the author for a book I keep hearing about called the Case for Christ. If you've read the book, what did you think?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel, the former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune, is the best-selling author of nearly twenty books that have sold a combined ten million copies. Described by the Washington Post as “one of the evangelical community’s most popular apologists,” Lee shared the Christian Book of the Year award in 2005 and has won Gold Medallions for The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary. With a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, Lee was a professional journalist for 14 years, winning Illinois’ top honors for investigative reporting (which he shared with a team he led) and public service journalism from United Press International. He and Leslie have been married for 34 years. Their daughter, Alison, is a novelist, and their son, Kyle, is earning a doctorate in theology at the University of Aberdeen. Lee’s free e-newsletter, “Investigating Faith,” is available at http://www.LeeStrobel.com.

I've read some of his books and they are encouraging for Christians but unless the Holy Spirit gives someone the gift of faith they won't do much for converting unbelievers who are blinded to the gospel truth as the person above me demonstrates in their answer.

2 Corinthians 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Answer 2

I have read it and didn't find it very convincing but I think it is if the person is looking to be convinced. His arguments are fairly weak to me. For instance, when considering the two accounts for the death of Judas Mr. Strobel just says his doubt was banished when it was explained they were just overlapping stories. Okay, anyone can explain away Biblical inconsistencies with some excuse where is your actual proof for any of it. It ignores a lot of the more serious scholarship examining the Bible done by Biblical scholars like Robert Price and Earl Doherty. In short, convincing to those who don't think about it too deeply or are just looking for confirmation of what they are already predisposed to believe. For the rest of us, not so convincing.

Answer 3

The book is most effective in responding to people who think they can disprove the existence of Christ or His deity. It's well written and informative.

Answer 4

I've read it, and I think he makes some valid point. But overall I'm not a fan of that type of apologetics. Sure you can use rationality to prove that a man named Jesus existed and some historical facts in the Bible are true, but the nature of faith is something that can't be explained with logic. I think it's dangerous when we try to do so and it turns a lot of people off.