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Josh McDowell
Născut	17 august 1939 (85 de ani) Union City^⁠(d), Burlington Township^⁠(d), Michigan, SUA
Cetățenie	Statele Unite ale Americii
Religie	Bisericile baptiste
Ocupație	autor teolog[] autor de non-ficțiune[] apologist[*]
Limbi vorbite	limba engleză^[1]
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Alma mater	Wheaton College[] Biola University[] Talbot School of Theology[*]
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Joslin „Josh” McDowell (n. 17 august 1939, Union City, Michigan, Statele Unite) este un apologet creștin, evanghelist și scriitor. Este protestant și autor sau co-autor al peste 77 de cărți. Cea mai cunoscută carte a sa, Evidence That Demands a Verdict, s-a clasat pe locul 13 întocmit de publicația Christianity Today privind cele mai influente cărți evanghelice care au fost publicate după cel de-al doilea război mondial.

Profesorul universitar emerit Gordon B. Hazen nu are deloc cuvinte de laudă pentru cercetările lui McDowell.^[2]

Cărți de McDowell

Evidence That Demands A Verdict, First published 1972. Revised Edition, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1979.
More Than A Carpenter, Tyndale House, Wheaton, Illinois, 1977.
Daniel in the Critics' Den, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1979.
Answers to Tough Questions, cu Don Stewart, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1980.
Givers, Takers and Other Kinds of Lovers, cu Paul Lewis, Tyndale House, Wheaton, 1980.
Reasons Skeptics Should Consider Christianity, cu Don Stewart, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1981.
More Evidence That Demands A Verdict, Revised edition, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1981.
The Resurrection Factor, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1981.
Prophecy: Fact or Fiction, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1981.
The Myths of Sex Education, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1981.
Guide To Understanding Your Bible, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1982.
Understanding Secular Religions, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1982.
Understanding Non-Christian Religions, cu Don Stewart, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1982.
The Islam Debate, cu John Gilchrist, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1983.
Jesus: A Biblical Defense of His Deity, cu Bart Larson, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1983.
Handbook of Today's Religions, cu Don Stewart, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1983.
Evidence Growth Guide, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1983.
Evidence for Joy, cu Dale Bellis, Word, Waco, 1984.
His Image, My Image, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1984.
The Secret of Loving, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1985.
Why Wait? cu Dick Day, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, 1987.
How to Help Your Child Say "No" to Sexual Pressure, Word Books, 1987.
He Walked Among Us: Evidence for the Historical Jesus, cu Bill Wilson, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1988.
Skeptics Who Demanded a Verdict, Tyndale House, Wheaton, 1989.
The Dad Difference, cu Norm Wakefield, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1989.
A Ready Defense, Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Tennessee, 1990.
The Occult, cu Don Stewart și Kurt Van Gorden, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, CA, 1992.
Don't Check Your Brains at the Door, Concordia Publishing House, 1992.
Right From Wrong, cu Bob Hostetler, Word, Dallas, 1994.
The Father Connection: 10 Qualities of the heart that empower your children to make right choices, B&H Books, Nashville Tennessee 1996.
The One Year Book of Josh McDowell's Youth Devotions, cu Bob Hostetler, Tyndale House, Wheaton, 1997.
New Evidence That Demands A Verdict, Word, Nashville, 1999.
See yourself as God sees you, Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois, 1999.
Disconnected Generation: Saving Our Youth From Self-Destruction, Word, Nashville, 2000.
Beyond Belief to Convictions, cu Bob Hostetler, Tyndale House, Wheaton, 2002.
The Last Christian Generation, Green Key Books, Holiday, Florida, 2006.
The Da Vinci Code: A Quest For Answers by Josh McDowell (free pdf book, 2006, 112 pp, ISBN 1932587802)
Evidence for the Resurrection, Regal Books, Ventura, California, 2009.

Traduceri în română

Josh McDowell & Bill Wilson - El a umblat printre noi (denumire originală He walked among us), Societatea Misionară Română, Editura Here's life, Oradea, 1994, pag. 64

Biografie

Josh: The Excitement of the Unexpected, de Joe Musser, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1981. Cunoscută și sub titlul A Skeptic's Quest.

Note

^ Autoritatea BnF, accesat în 10 octombrie 2015
^ Hazen, Gordon B. (20 februarie 2017). „A Verdict on Josh McDowell”. users.iems.northwestern.edu. Accesat în 15 septembrie 2024.