12 Hard Questions About God: Systematic Theology for Teens Seeking Real Answers, Real Life Witnesses and the Truth About the Unseen Battle - Couverture souple

Saint Martin, Aude

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ISBN 10 : 1066676801 ISBN 13 : 9781066676804

Editeur : Lantern House Press, 2026

Synopsis

Discover the Answers that Truly Matter: Does your teen understand what they believe and why?

Can they share their faith confidently when challenged?

Twelve thought-provoking questions spread across twelve chapters they can explore at their own pace — either over a year or in twelve dedicated weeks.

12 Hard Questions About God invites teens to go beyond simple answers and, through the questions they are already asking, prompts them to examine, in a clear and systematic way, the core beliefs of Christianity, why Christians believe them, and why they matter.

Saints, thinkers, converts, skeptics, and historical figures demonstrate that the questions young people face today are neither new nor intellectually trivial.

Readers will explore questions such as:

• Who is God, and can we really know anything about Him?
• Can faith and reason coexist?
• Why would a good God allow suffering?
• Who am I as a Christian?
• What does freedom actually mean?
• Why did Jesus have to die?
• Is there evidence for the Resurrection?
• Why do Christians need the Church?
• What happens when doubt enters your faith?
• What does Christianity mean by an unseen spiritual battle?

In each chapter:

• A passage of scripture explained in its theological and practical context
• Historical witnesses whose lives put belief, doubt, courage, failure, and conversion into context
• A "When Doubt Knocks" section: teen-level apologetics that bring reasoned arguments and evidence to the hardest objections rather than avoiding them
• A calm, grounded look at spiritual warfare — temptation, fear, confusion, despair — with no drama and no superstition.
• "For Your Journey" reflection prompts designed for teens reading independently or alongside parents.

Geared to every Christian who confesses the Apostles’ Creed — a Catholic theology for teens a Protestant family can read without friction. Aude Saint Martin brings together Scripture, Christian theology, reason, historical evidence, and the lives of men and women who wrestled seriously with faith themselves. She brings a lawyer’s habits to theology: precision with language, patience with complexity, and a refusal to let an argument rest on assertion alone.

Written for thoughtful teens roughly 15–19, 12 Hard Questions About God presents the Christian case seriously and gives young readers a framework for examining what they have been taught, testing it for themselves, and moving from inherited belief toward personal conviction.

Because by adulthood, the question is no longer simply, “What was I taught?” It becomes, “What do I actually believe, and why?”

“Seek, and you will find” (Matthew 7:7). Walk the first question with your teen tonight.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Aude Saint Martin writes Christian theology rooted in the Catholic tradition and built on the ground shared across Christian confessions. Her work brings together doctrine, Scripture, reason, psychology, and the questions that shape faith, doubt, identity, and spiritual maturity, teaching through the lives of the saints as much as through argument.She is the author of 12 Hard Questions About God, a systematic theology written for teenagers and young adults who want to understand truth, belief, suffering, freedom, and God in a world that rarely pauses long enough to think carefully. It is the book she wished she had found as a young adult - a place where hard questions were taken seriously, doubt was treated as honest, and the search for God was not handed down but walked.Trained as a lawyer with nearly two decades in practice, Aude brings to theological writing the habits of her legal background: precision with language, patience with complexity, and a refusal to let an argument rest on assertion alone. Her work in law also gave her firsthand knowledge of the weight people carry when conscience, fear, and responsibility collide, the kind of pressure that makes theological questions personal rather than academic. Having lived in France and Argentina before settling in the UK, she writes with an international perspective on faith, culture, and the human experience of God.Doubt, in her work, is not treated as failure but as the honest starting point for inquisitive minds in serious search for truth and meaning.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lantern House Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1066676801
• ISBN 13: 9781066676804
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 191
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