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'''Ergun Michael Caner''' (born 1966), also known as ''Ergun Mehmet Caner'', is an [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] [[Minister (Christianity)|minister]]. He was born in [[Sweden]] to a Muslim Turkish immigrant and a Swedish mother and was raised as a [[Sunni Islam|Sunni Muslim]].<ref name=McGee>{{cite web|url=http://www2.tricities.com/news/2010/sep/25/constroversial-professorminister-ergun-caner-payin-ar-524544/|title=Controversial professor/minister Ergun Caner 'paying the price'|author=David McGee|date=25 September 2010|work=|publisher=TriCities.com|accessdate=11 January 2011}}</ref> He emigrated at a young age to the [[United States]] and converted to [[Christianity]].
'''Ergun Michael Caner''' (born 1966), also known as ''Ergun Mehmet Caner'', is an evangelical minister. He was born in Sweden to a Muslim Turkish immigrant and a Swedish mother who converted to Islam. He was raised a Sunni Muslim.<ref>{{ErgunCaner.com|url=http://www.erguncaner.com/biography/}}</ref> Caner immigrated at a young age to the United States and converted to Christianity.


He is the Provost, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Professor or Theology, Church History and Apologetics for the Arlington Baptist College.<ref>{{SBC Today|url=http://sbctoday.com/2011/05/17/breaking-news-arlington-bible-college-calls-ergun-caner-as-provost-and-vice-president-of-academic-affairs/}}</ref> Caner has co-authored several books with his brother Emir on Christianity and Islam. He has also authored, co-authored or contributed to several other books. He is a popular Gospel preacher and professor.
He is a former professor of [[theology]] and [[church history]], as well as a former dean at the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary and Graduate School of [[Liberty University]]. Caner has co-authored several books with his brother Emir, many of which are critical of Islam and have generated international controversy. In 2010 it emerged that he had made false claims about having been linked to [[Islamic terrorism|Muslim terrorist]] groups as a young man. However, after assembling a panel to investigate the accusations, Liberty University acknowledged that there was "no evidence that he lied."


In May 2011 it was announced that he was appointed professor of [[theology]] and [[church history]], as well as the Provost and Vice President of Academics at [[Arlington Baptist College]].<ref name=wfaa>{{cite news|last=Shipp|first=Brentt|title=Controversy follows Baptist theologian to North Texas|url=http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Controversy-follows-Baptist-theologian-to-north-Texas-124318149.html|accessdate=23 June 2011|newspaper=WFAA|date=21 June 2011}}</ref>




==Biography==
==Biography==
Ergun Caner was born in Sweden to Muslim parents. He was the first son of a Turkish father and a Swedish mother, both Sunni Muslims. His parents immigrated to America and settled in Columbus, Ohio. As a teenager Caner attended a revival meeting at the Stelzer Road Baptist church at the persistent invitation of a school acquaintance. He renounced Islam and converted to Christianity. His two brothers, mother and grandmother also became Christians but his father remained a devout Sunni Muslim until his death. His father was an architect who helped build the Islamic Center of Central Ohio in Columbus.<ref>{{Times Daily, April 30, 2005|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7VMeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QsgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1281,4017300&dq=ergun-caner&hl=en}}</ref> Caner started his graduate studies at Criswell College in Dallas with his brother Emir who went on to become president at Truett-McConnell College<ref>{{TruettMcConnell College|url=http://www.truett.edu/}}</ref> , a Georgia Baptist Convention school in Cleveland, Georgia. Both attended Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in North Carolina for further graduate work. Caner earned his D.Theol from the University of South Africa with his doctoral thesis on ''Bellum Sacrum: The Development of the Holy War of the First Crusade in light of Augustine's Just War Criteria.<ref>{{Worldcat.org|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/bellum-sacrum-the-development-of-the-holy-war-of-the-first-crusade-in-light-of-augustines-just-war-criteria/oclc/56775163}}</ref> ''
Ergun Caner and his brother Erdem were born in Sweden,<ref>Caner, Ergun, Emir Caner Unveiling Islam (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2002) 17</ref> the sons of a Muslim Turkish father and a Swedish mother. Conflicting versions exist about his mother' religion. Some sources state his mother Monica Inez was a Muslim.<ref name=McGee/> She was an only child raised in Stockholm and educated all over Europe. By age 20, she had attended the Sorbonne in Paris. She had traveled the world.<ref>Caner, Ergun, Emir Caner Unveiling Islam (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2002) 17</ref> Divorce papers of June 8 1978 show Caner's parents litigated about the religious education of their sons.<ref name=McGee/><ref>[http://www.witnessesuntome.com/caner/caner-motion-decision-june-8-1978-web.pdf Decision by Ohio Court, June 8, 1978]</ref> Early in his career Caner claimed to have been born in Turkey, where he was "entrenched in Muslim extremism when he moved to the United States from Turkey as a teenager and found Jesus."<ref name="wan">{{cite news|last=Wan|first=William|title=Liberty U. removing Ergun Caner as seminary dean over contradictory statements|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062905331.html|accessdate=2 January 2011|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=30 June 2010|author2=Michelle Boorstein}}</ref> His parents emigrated to [[Ohio]], and Caner began frequenting a Baptist church in [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]] and in 1982 converted to [[Christianity]].<ref name="lowry">{{cite news|last=Lowry|first=Bob|title=Converted Muslim becomes dean|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7VMeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QsgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1281,4017300&dq=ergun-caner&hl=en|accessdate=2 January 2011|newspaper=[[TimesDaily]]|date=30 April 2005}}</ref> His two brothers, mother and grandmother also became Christians<ref name=McGee/> but his father remained a [[Muslim]];<ref name="robesonian"/> and was the architect who built a mosque in Columbus.


In 2002, the brothers gained national notoriety after publishing ''Unveiling Islam'', an examination of Islam from their personal experience.<ref> http://www.amazon.com/Unveiling-Islam-Insiders-Muslim-Beliefs/dp/0825424283/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311174695&sr=8-1}}</ref> In the 2003 the book received the Gold Medallion Book Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.<ref>{{Christan Book Expo|url=http://christianbookexpo.com/christianbookawards/gm2003.php}}</ref> Caner became a well-known and popular speaker at evangelical schools and churches and after teaching at Criswell College for two years became a popular professor at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. In February 2005, Falwell announced that Caner was to become president and dean of the university's seminary.<ref>{{Baptist Press|url=http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=20171}}</ref> Caner's charisma and his humorous and sometimes politically incorrect style of teaching, however, proved very popular among students, and enrollment at the seminary tripled.
The Sahih al-Bukhari 9:57 says
<blockquote><p>Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to 'Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn 'Abbas who said, "If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah's Apostle forbade it, saying, 'Do not punish anybody with Allah's punishment (fire).' I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah's Apostle, 'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"</p></blockquote> According to Ergun's brother, Emir Caner, their father interpreted the above verse as an allegory rather than literally. Consulting with his imam and other Islamic leaders, their father made them figuratively dead by disowning them. <ref>Caner, Emir "Fantasy or Possibility: Can Religious Liberty be created in Islamic Countries" First Freedom: The Baptist Perspective on Religious Liberty (Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2007) 156 http://books.google.com/books?id=U4esKOiTWGQC&lpg=PA158&dq=emir%20caner&pg=PA156#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref>


He left LU in June 2011 to become Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs for the historic Arlington Baptist College.<ref>{{SBC Today|url=http://sbctoday.com/2011/05/17/breaking-news-arlington-bible-college-calls-ergun-caner-as-provost-and-vice-president-of-academic-affairs/}}</ref>
Caner studied at [[Criswell College]] in [[Dallas]] with his brother Emir who went on to teach at [[Truett-McConnell College]], a [[Georgia Baptist Convention|Baptist]] school in [[Cleveland, Georgia]],<ref name="sacirbey"/> and both attended [[Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary]] in [[North Carolina]] for postgraduate work.<ref name="lowry"/>


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==Books==
In 2002, the brothers gained national notoriety after publishing ''Unveiling Islam'', a critique of Islam;<ref name="lowry"/><ref name="breed">{{cite news|last=Breed|first=Allen G.|title=Former Muslims Stir Anger With Book Assailing Islam; Brothers Who Became Baptists Call Former Faith 'Violent'|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/140029261.html?dids=140029261:140029261&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+21%2C+2002&author=Allen+G.+Breed&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Former+Muslims+Stir+Anger+With+Book+Assailing+Islam%3B+Brothers+Who+Became+Baptists+Call+Former+Faith+%27Violent%27&pqatl=google|accessdate=2 January 2011|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=21 June 2002}}</ref><ref name="robesonian">{{cite news|title=Converts take heat for book about Islam|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iIFFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Yc4MAAAAIBAJ&pg=4187,6296236&dq=ergun-caner&hl=en|accessdate=2 January 2011|newspaper=[[The Robesonian]]|date=26 July 2002}}</ref> ''[[IslamOnline]]'''s Ali Asadullah called it "a diatribe against Muslims and their faith."<ref>{{cite web|last=Asadullah|first=Ali|title=Former Muslims Attack Islam in New Book|url=http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&pagename=Zone-English-ArtCulture/ACELayout&cid=1158658281186|publisher=[[IslamOnline]]|accessdate=2 January 2011}}</ref> The book was a commercial success, selling 100,000 copies in a year.<ref>{{cite news|last=Oh|first=Susie L.|title=Christian Authors Writing Book on Islam|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kTcxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4v0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1916,4996691&dq=unveiling-islam&hl=en|accessdate=2 January 2011|newspaper=[[Lakeland Ledger]]|date=6 June 2003}}</ref> In the years after the [[September 11 attacks]], Caner became a well-known and popular speaker at evangelical schools and churches, helped by his charisma and conversion story,<ref name="wan"/> and after teaching at Criswell College for two years became a popular professor at [[Jerry Falwell]]'s Liberty University.<ref name="wan"/> In February 2005, Falwell announced that Caner was to become dean of the college's seminary,<ref name="press">{{cite web|title=Ergun Caner named dean of Liberty Baptist Seminary |url=http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=20171|publisher=[[Baptist Press]]|accessdate=2 January 2011}}</ref> a move criticized by Muslim groups.<ref name="lowry"/> Caner's charisma and his humorous and sometimes politically incorrect style of teaching, however, proved very popular among students, and enrollment at the seminary tripled.<ref name="wan"/>
• Caner, Ergun, and Emir Fethi Caner. ''Unveiling Islam: An Insider's Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs.'' Updated and Expanded ed. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2009. ISBN-10: 0825424283


• Caner, Emir Fethi, and Ergun Mehmet Caner. ''More Than a Prophet: an Insider's Response to Muslim Beliefs About Jesus and Christianity.'' Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2003. ISBN-10: 0825424011
He ignited controversy largely due to the criticism and scrutiny of "an unusual alliance of Muslim and Christian bloggers"<ref name="wan"/> which found errors of various kinds in Caner's lectures and books, even in his biography;<ref name="sacirbey">{{cite news|last=Sacirbey|first=Omar|title=Muslims with dubious pasts perpetuate fear of Islam|url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/7090485.html|accessdate=2 January 2011|newspaper=[[Houston Chronicle]]|date=1 July 2010}}</ref> though he had claimed to have been raised as a teenager in Turkey to become a Muslim extremist and only immigrated to the US in 1978. It was during these years that he claimed to have attended a Muslim extremist training center in Beirut. However, court records show that he had actually emigrated to the United States in 1969 at age 3.<ref name="wan"/>


• Caner Emir, and Ergun Caner. ''The Sacred Trust: Sketches of the Southern Baptist Convention Presidents.'' Nashville, Tenn.: B&H Academic, 2003. ISBN-10: 080542668X
On April 25, 2005, he conducted two training sessions for the United States Marines in New River, North Carolina. During these sessions he was introduced as having moved to the United States from Turkey at the age of 14. He claimed that he did not know anything about America until he came to the country at age 14. He told the marines that he did not learn English until after age 14. He said he watched American television in Turkey, but he had to watch it with Turkish captions.<ref>Ergun Caner trains US Marines (o-club) http://www.viddler.com/explore/jsin/videos/2/</ref> He claimed that he had been educated (before coming to America) in madrassas in both Instanbul, Turky and Cairo, Egypt.<ref>Ergun Caner trains US Marines (Base Theater) http://www.viddler.com/explore/jsin/videos/1/</ref> The unedited videos of these sessions were obtained by a Freedom of Information Request in August, 2010.<ref>United States Marines duped by pretend jihadist, Ergun Caner http://www.witnessesuntome.com/2010/08/united-states-marines-duped-by-pretend-jihadist-ergun-caner/</ref>


• Caner, Ergun Mehmet, and Emir Fethi Caner, eds. ''The Sacred Desk: Sermons of the Southern Baptist Convention Presidents.'' Nashville, Tenn.: B&H Publishing Group, 2004. ISBN-10: 0805430598
Moreover, in a statement released on his own website and reproduced by the [[Southern Baptist Convention]], Caner admitted, in February 2010, that he had actually been born in Sweden, and that possible errors in his "pronunciation of [[Arabic language|Arabic]]" as he's from a Turkish background and other matters were not intended to mislead but were bound to happen in two decades of ministry and hundreds of sermons.<ref>{{cite web|title=Statement from Dr. Ergun Caner|url=http://sbctoday.com/2010/02/25/statement-from-dr-ergun-caner/|publisher=[[Southern Baptist Convention]]|accessdate=3 January 2011}}</ref> The [[Associated Baptist Press]] reported in May 2010 that Liberty University backed Caner after having investigated the allegations of untruths,<ref>{{cite news|last=Allen|first=Bob|title=Liberty U. backs seminary president amid charges of misrepresentation |url=http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/5118/53|accessdate=3 January 2011|newspaper=[[Associated Baptist Press]]|date=5 May 2010}}</ref> but a few days later the university announced that it would continue investigating.<ref>{{cite news|last=Allen|first=Bob|title=Liberty U. to investigate alleged untruths by seminary president |url=http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/5134/53|accessdate=3 January 2011|newspaper=[[Associated Baptist Press]]|date=11 May 2010}}</ref> "Because of "factual statements that are self-contradictory", he was forced to step down from his position as dean in June 2010, though he was retained as a professor.<ref name="wan"/>


• Caner, Ergun Mehmet, ed. ''Voices Behind the Veil: the World of Islam through the Eyes of Women.'' Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2004. ISBN-10: 082542402X
September 24, 2010, Ergun Caner was the keynote speaker for the Twin City’s 12th Annual Community Prayer Breakfast in Bristol, VA. When interviewed about the controversy, the chairman of the local prayer breakfast committee said that members were aware of the controversy, but the invitation had been issued before the controversy became apparent. He also noted that the Community Prayer Breakfast does not delve into the backgrounds of their motivation/inspiration speakers. <ref>McGee, David "Liberty's Caner to speak at prayer breakfast" Tricities.com 9/19/10 http://www2.tricities.com/news/2010/sep/19/libertys-caner-speak-prayer-breakfast-ar-513864/</ref> At the meeting, Caner claimed that he and his brother saw the controversy coming for years. The bloggers were simply "frustrated people in their basements.” He claimed that it would take more than edited videos to take him down. All of his false statements could be explained by the fact that he has more than 200 hours of combined sermons which would yield random misstatements.<ref>McGee, David "Caner defends background in Bristol speech" News and Advance 9/25/10 http://www2.newsadvance.com/news/2010/sep/25/caner-defends-background-bristol-speech-ar-524525/</ref>


• Caner, Ergun Mehmet, and Emir Fethi Caner. ''Christian Jihad: Two Former Muslims Look at the Crusades and Killing in the Name of Christ.'' Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2004. ISBN-10: 0825424038
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==Books==

* {{cite book |title=Voices Behind the Veil: Women on the Women of Islam |last=Caner |first=Ergun |authorlink= |coauthors=|year=2004 |publisher=Kregel Publications |location=Grand Rapids, MI |isbn= 082542402X|page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=}}
• Brunson, Mac & Caner, Ergun. ''Why Churches Die: Diagnosing Lethal Poisons in the Body of Christ.'' Nashville: B&H Books, 2005. ISBN-10: 0805431810
* {{cite book |title=Unveiling Islam: An Insider's Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs|last=Caner |first=Ergun |authorlink= |coauthors= Emir Fethi Caner |year= 2009|publisher= Kregel Publications|location=Grand Rapids, MI |isbn=978-0825424281 |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=}}

* {{cite book |title=More Than a Prophet: An Insider's Response to Muslim Beliefs About Jesus & Christianity|last=Caner |first=Ergun |authorlink= |coauthors= Emir Fethi Caner |year=2003 |publisher=Kregel Publications |location=Grand Rapids, MI |isbn=978-0825424014 |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=}}
• Hoffman, Paul K., and Norman L. Geisler, eds. ''Why I Am a Christian: Leading Thinkers Explain Why They Believe.'' Rev. and expanded ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 2006. ISBN-10: 080106712X
* {{cite book |title=Holier Than Thou: When Faith Becomes Toxic|last=Caner |first=Ergun|authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2009 |publisher=Abingdon Press |location=Nashville, TN |isbn=978-0687658404 |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=}}

• Cabal, Ted, ed. ''The Apologetics Study Bible: Understand Why You Believe.'' Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2007. ISBN-10: 158640024X

• Pollock, Forrest. ''The Last Sermon I Would Preach If Jesus Were Coming Tomorrow.'' Encouraging Word, 2007. ISBN-10: 0615159400

• Hindson, Ed, and Caner, Ergun, general editors. ''The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics.'' Eugene, Or.: Harvest House Publishers, 2008. ISBN-10: 0736920846

• Falwell, Jonathan, general editor. ''InnovateChurch.'' Nashville, Tenn.: B&H Books, 2008. ISBN-10: 0805448268

• Caner, Ergun Mehmet. ''Holier Than Thou: When Faith Becomes Toxic.'' Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009. ISBN-10: 0687658403

• Allen, David L., and Steve W Lemke, eds. ''The Return of Christ: A Premillennial Perspective.'' Nashville: B&H Academic, 2011. ISBN-10: 1433669722


==See Also==
==See Also==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.erguncaner.com Official site of Ergun Caner]
* [http://www.erguncaner.com Official site of Ergun Caner]
* [http://www.abconline.edu Official site of Arlington Baptist College]
* [http://www.liberty.edu/academics/religion/seminary/index.cfm?PID=21177 Ergun Caner's biography] on Liberty University website
*[http://www.normangeisler.net/indefenseofcaner.html In Defense of Dr. Ergun Caner], by [[Norman Geisler]]
*[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/julyweb-only/36-51.0.html "Ergun Caner Out as Seminary Dean"], from ''[[Christianity Today]]''
*[http://www.fakeexmuslims.com Mohammad Khan's] blog, one of the sites that started the controversy about Caner's background.


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Ergun Caner
Born
Ergun Michael Caner

(1966-11-03) November 3, 1966 (age 58)
Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation(s)Provost, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Theology, Church History and Apologetics
EmployerArlington Baptist College[1]
Spouse
Jill Morris
​
(m. 1994)​
Parent(s)Acar Martin Caner (father)
Monica Inez Caner (mother)
Websiteerguncaner.com

Ergun Michael Caner (born 1966), also known as Ergun Mehmet Caner, is an evangelical minister. He was born in Sweden to a Muslim Turkish immigrant and a Swedish mother who converted to Islam. He was raised a Sunni Muslim.[2] Caner immigrated at a young age to the United States and converted to Christianity.

He is the Provost, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Professor or Theology, Church History and Apologetics for the Arlington Baptist College.[3] Caner has co-authored several books with his brother Emir on Christianity and Islam. He has also authored, co-authored or contributed to several other books. He is a popular Gospel preacher and professor.


Biography

Ergun Caner was born in Sweden to Muslim parents. He was the first son of a Turkish father and a Swedish mother, both Sunni Muslims. His parents immigrated to America and settled in Columbus, Ohio. As a teenager Caner attended a revival meeting at the Stelzer Road Baptist church at the persistent invitation of a school acquaintance. He renounced Islam and converted to Christianity. His two brothers, mother and grandmother also became Christians but his father remained a devout Sunni Muslim until his death. His father was an architect who helped build the Islamic Center of Central Ohio in Columbus.[4] Caner started his graduate studies at Criswell College in Dallas with his brother Emir who went on to become president at Truett-McConnell College[5] , a Georgia Baptist Convention school in Cleveland, Georgia. Both attended Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in North Carolina for further graduate work. Caner earned his D.Theol from the University of South Africa with his doctoral thesis on Bellum Sacrum: The Development of the Holy War of the First Crusade in light of Augustine's Just War Criteria.[6]

In 2002, the brothers gained national notoriety after publishing Unveiling Islam, an examination of Islam from their personal experience.[7] In the 2003 the book received the Gold Medallion Book Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.[8] Caner became a well-known and popular speaker at evangelical schools and churches and after teaching at Criswell College for two years became a popular professor at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. In February 2005, Falwell announced that Caner was to become president and dean of the university's seminary.[9] Caner's charisma and his humorous and sometimes politically incorrect style of teaching, however, proved very popular among students, and enrollment at the seminary tripled.

He left LU in June 2011 to become Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs for the historic Arlington Baptist College.[10]

Books

• Caner, Ergun, and Emir Fethi Caner. Unveiling Islam: An Insider's Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs. Updated and Expanded ed. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2009. ISBN-10: 0825424283

• Caner, Emir Fethi, and Ergun Mehmet Caner. More Than a Prophet: an Insider's Response to Muslim Beliefs About Jesus and Christianity. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2003. ISBN-10: 0825424011

• Caner Emir, and Ergun Caner. The Sacred Trust: Sketches of the Southern Baptist Convention Presidents. Nashville, Tenn.: B&H Academic, 2003. ISBN-10: 080542668X

• Caner, Ergun Mehmet, and Emir Fethi Caner, eds. The Sacred Desk: Sermons of the Southern Baptist Convention Presidents. Nashville, Tenn.: B&H Publishing Group, 2004. ISBN-10: 0805430598

• Caner, Ergun Mehmet, ed. Voices Behind the Veil: the World of Islam through the Eyes of Women. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2004. ISBN-10: 082542402X

• Caner, Ergun Mehmet, and Emir Fethi Caner. Christian Jihad: Two Former Muslims Look at the Crusades and Killing in the Name of Christ. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2004. ISBN-10: 0825424038

• Brunson, Mac & Caner, Ergun. Why Churches Die: Diagnosing Lethal Poisons in the Body of Christ. Nashville: B&H Books, 2005. ISBN-10: 0805431810

• Hoffman, Paul K., and Norman L. Geisler, eds. Why I Am a Christian: Leading Thinkers Explain Why They Believe. Rev. and expanded ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 2006. ISBN-10: 080106712X

• Cabal, Ted, ed. The Apologetics Study Bible: Understand Why You Believe. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2007. ISBN-10: 158640024X

• Pollock, Forrest. The Last Sermon I Would Preach If Jesus Were Coming Tomorrow. Encouraging Word, 2007. ISBN-10: 0615159400

• Hindson, Ed, and Caner, Ergun, general editors. The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics. Eugene, Or.: Harvest House Publishers, 2008. ISBN-10: 0736920846

• Falwell, Jonathan, general editor. InnovateChurch. Nashville, Tenn.: B&H Books, 2008. ISBN-10: 0805448268

• Caner, Ergun Mehmet. Holier Than Thou: When Faith Becomes Toxic. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009. ISBN-10: 0687658403

• Allen, David L., and Steve W Lemke, eds. The Return of Christ: A Premillennial Perspective. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2011. ISBN-10: 1433669722

See Also

References

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