Lee Patrick Strobel, a former legal editor for the Chicago Tribune, is a Christian apologist and former teaching pastor of Willow Creek Community Church. He is best known for writing the semi-autobiographical bestsellers The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, and The Case for a Creator. Strobel also hosted a television program called Faith Under Fire on PAX TV. His daughter, Alison, is also a Christian writer.
Biography
Strobel earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School. A journalist for fourteen years, he was awarded Illinois' highest honors from United Press International for both investigative reporting (shared with a team he led at the Chicago Tribune) and for public service journalism.
It was during his years as a journalist that Strobel was an avowed atheist. His 1981 conversion to Christianity was influenced by his wife's conversion two years earlier and Strobel's subsequent personal investigation into the historical, scientific, and philosophical evidence for Christianity, which is the subject of many of his books.
Bibliography
- Reckless Homicide? Ford's Pinto Trial (1980) ISBN 0-89708-022-X
- Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary (1993)
- What Jesus Would Say (1994)
- God's Outrageous Claims (1998)
- The Case for Christ (1998) ISBN 0-310-20930-7
- The Case for Faith (2000)
- Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage (2002)
- The Case for a Creator (2004)
- The Case for Easter (2004)
- Experiencing the Passion of Jesus (2004)
- The Case for Christmas (2005)
- Discussing the Da Vinci Code : Exploring the Issues Raised by the Book and Movie (2006)
Strobel as Legal Apologist
- Ross Clifford, John Warwick Montgomery's Legal Apologetic: An Apologetic for all Seasons (Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft/Culture and Science Publishers, Bonn, Germany, 2004).
- Philip S. Johnson, "Juridical Apologists 1600-2000 AD: A Bio-Bibliographical Essay," Global Journal of Classical Theology, 3/1 (2002)[1]