Lee Strobel
Lee Strobel says that his wife’s conversion to Christianity lead him to investigate the claims of Christianity. Being a reporter with a law degree, he approached this as if he were writing about a controversial criminal case. This provides the narrative hook for a series of interviews with Christian scholars. As one might guess from the title, at the end of the process he himself converted.
Strobel does a good job of demonstrating that Jesus was a historical person, that the Gospels are reliable documents relative to other documents of the era and that they were written close to the time of Christ. His arguments for Christ’s divinity are weaker, though still thought-provoking.
The book would be much more satisfying if Strobel had ventured outside of the category “American Protestant” when selecting his interview subjects. Not only would variety have improved the book, but might have lead Strobel to investigate another “case”: the Catholic church’s claim to be the “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic” church that Christ founded.