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

What your teen builds their life on by eighteen is often what has to hold them at thirty-five.

By the time the hard questions arrive — suffering, identity, truth, death, where life is heading — most teens have already chosen a foundation. The question is whether it rests on what culture is saying this year, or on something deep enough to outlast it.

12 Hard Questions About God is a systematic theology for teens that reads like a journey, not a workbook. No prior study is needed: it starts where your teen actually is and walks through the questions every soul eventually asks: Is Christianity true? How do we know God is real? Why does God allow suffering? Did Jesus rise from the dead? What happens after I die?
Across twelve chapters, your teen learns to think, wrestle honestly, and understand what Christians believe and why. As s real apologetics for teenagers, it answers common questions so that when a friend, a teacher, or a professor pushes back, they can stand up for their faith instead of going quiet.

Teens remember stories before they remember arguments. So each chapter is built around one:
— A passage of Scripture opens the question and unfolds its meaning.
— A real saint or witness walks beside the reader: Augustine on identity, Maximilian Kolbe in Auschwitz, Damien of Molokai among the lepers, Padre Pio in the unseen battle, Carlo Acutis and Thérèse of Lisieux on holiness lived now — alongside thinkers like Aquinas and C.S. Lewis, who brought reason and faith together.
— A “When Doubt Knocks” section meets the hardest objections with honest answers, not slogans.
— A calm, grounded look at spiritual warfare — temptation, fear, confusion, despair, with no drama nor superstition.
— “For Your Journey” reflection prompts and “For Parents and Teens Together” conversation starters turn each chapter into prayer, discussion, and daily life. Read it solo, or use it as a parents-and-teens devotional you work through side by side.

By the final chapter, your teen has begun to understand and master the core of Christian doctrine, and hasn’t just been informed but formed. The faith they hold isn’t the borrowed kind teens quietly walk away from in college. It’s theirs: tested, walked, chosen.

Catholic in root and open to every Christian who confesses the Apostles’ Creed: a Catholic theology for teens a Protestant family can read without friction. Ideal as a confirmation gift for teens, a homeschool theology spine, youth-group or confirmation preparation, or personal study.

Written by Aude Saint Martin, a Catholic mother and lawyer. Raised in the faith, she lost it for a few years, found her way back, and spent years studying Scripture and theology. She wrote the book she wishes someone had walked through with her.

“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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