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How do we find God in a senseless world where we are overloaded with information and technology, distraught by the futility of politics and are constantly being controlled by the machines of progress? In a world obsessed with power and control, many are finding the inner peace we all seek by taking a step back instead of "forward" to identify with nature and common sense, back to the Garden of Eden in a sense. God has a far deeper and more personal meaning beyond the increasing complications of world religions and the rapid "progress" that mankind claims to be experiencing.

For eight years, Dr. Montgomery's Sunday evening call-in radio show in Southern California featured a "Legal Loon Award" for nutty (or appalling) religious ideas and practices. Here is a selection of the best of those awards

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Dr. Montgomery's brief for the truthfulness of Christianity, using legal standards of evidence. Given at the University of Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta on November 15, 1991.

A treatment of the concepts of "law", "gospel" and the classic "three uses of the law", together with their application to the crucial question of the appropriateness of legislating a "Christian agenda" in a pluralistic society.

An analysis and critique of the ideas of Gabriel Vahanian, Harvey Cox, Thomas Altizer, William Hamilton, and Paul Van Buren.

An introduction to principles used in interpreting documents in the field of law, and their application in the field of theology. An address to the Evangelical Theological Society, November 1994.

A survey and critique of the eschatological aspects of non-Evangelical Protestant and Roman Catholic thinkers—Altizer and the "Death of God," de Chardin and "Process Theology," and Moltmann and "Theology of Hope."

An examination of the basis and justification for war crimes trials, including international law and the "rule of law," while protecting the rights of the individual and the desire to achieve a "common good." Two lectures.

An examination of the nature of the Bible and the claim for its reliability as a revelation from God.

The contribution of the third person of the Trinity to apologetic activity in evangelism and missions.

Dr. Montgomery served as director of studies at the prestigious International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg. France for three years. For thirteen years he has integrated biblical theology and human rights through a summer program in Strasbourg. Learn why only a serious biblical theology can supply the foundations for human rights in our world.

This debate took place on October 2008, sponsored by the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin. The proposition being debated was, "That this house finds it irrational to believe in God." Dr. Montgomery and colleagues argued in support of the opposition. The audience of approximately 400 voted to defeat the proposition.

An introductory lecture on jurisprudence (philosophy of law) delivered at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta on March 26, 1993.

The Inns of Court School of Law in London, England was the scene of a lively debate on the truthfulness of the claims of two of the world's most prominent religions on October 17, 2003. The debaters were Shabir Ally, a graduate of Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario with a B.A. in religious studies, and president and founder of the Islamic Information and Da'Wah Center in Toronto, Canada, and John Warwick Montgomery.

Too often, contrasting styles of evangelical apologetics are discussed solely within the Christian context. In this recording the relative merits of presuppositionalism and evidentialism are evaluated by seeing their application to the argument for the Muslim view of Jesus.

In this lecture, Dr. Montgomery offers an in-depth analysis based both upon Scripture and upon the human rights record of modern Israel vis-à-vis the Palestinian problem and the Near East situation in general.

In 1970, Dr. Montgomery was the visiting Reveille Scholar at the University of California—San Diego. This tape set is comprised of the series of lectures in which he developed a Christian approach to the study of the philosophy of history.

John Montgomery examines legal and ethical issues surrounding the questions of suicide and assisted suicide, the issues in health care: rights of the unborn, ethics in a changing health care system, and human dignity in birth and death: a question of values.

Many claim to have been drawn to Christian faith by charismatic prophecy or by the prophetic-eschatological themes in such popular works as the Last Days of the Late, Great Planet Earth. This recording examines in what sense and to what degree Scriptural prophecies have legitimate apologetic value, and how they can be used properly in the contemporary defense of the faith.