Resources intended to help Christians defend their faith are enjoying a golden age, says one publisher.

Christians are being forced to develop better, more convincing arguments to counter "New Atheists" like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, observes Jeremy Howard, managing acquisitions editor for Bibles, reference books and commentaries at B&H Publishing Group.

The result is a crop of recent and new releases like best-selling author Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ Study Bible (Zondervan) and B&H's Holman Christian Standard Study Bible, which releases in October. It will include essays on apologetics by two-dozen scholars and a pair of feature-length articles exploring the Bible as God's inspired Word.

B&H Publishing Group and LifeWay Digital are releasing four new Apologetics iPhone apps to help students defend and articulate their beliefs.

"Even from elementary school forward, you're likely to be confronted with opposition" to Christian belief, Howard told Christian Retailing. "There's been a development the last 50 years; out of that have arisen a lot of Christian scholars who have decided, ‘You know, that's where I'm going to develop my expertise.' "

With 15 million copies of his More Than a Carpenter in print and the title continuing to sell well, longtime apologist and author Josh McDowell is to speak at the official opening of the International Christian Retail Show in St. Louis, next month.

Read more on the apologetics trend in the July issue of Christian Retailing.

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