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The Heritage Trial
Hardcover
Series: The Cross Examination, Book 10
Mystery & ThrillerChristian Fiction
Publisher: Alfred Basta
Published: Jun 20 2026
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Can a culture survive if it cuts down the very soil that grew its moral framework?
In the late autumn of 2045, the United States stands at a cultural and legal precipice. Under the sweeping mandates of the Civic Heritage Education Standards Act, the federal government has put Christianity on trial.
The question before the court is absolute: Has the Christian church, across two millennia of history, been a net force for human flourishing or human harm? Does the church belong in the future of Western civilization?
Enter Christian Cross, a fifty-three-year-old professor of apologetics at Logos University. Having successfully navigated nine prior legal battles defending the faith, Cross now faces his most devastating docket yet. The prosecution, led by the brilliant and morally serious Bram Frey of the Athenaeum legal foundation, is not coming with shouting or empty outrage. She is coming with a ledger.
The Crusades, the Inquisition, the witch trials, slavery, colonialism, the suppression of science, and modern clerical abuse scandals-every historic stain is about to be read aloud in a federal courtroom in Knoxville.
But the architecture of the defense rests on a truth the secular world didn't see coming. As Cross prepares his case alongside an unexpected, raw confession from his own pastor, the trial shifts from a standard public-relations exercise to something much deeper.
The confession is the defense.
The Heritage Trial is a gripping, intellectually ferocious courtroom drama that doesn't flinch from the historical failures of the church. Instead, it uncovers a startling paradox: the very moral standard by which the world condemns the church is a vocabulary the church itself gave the West.
Written by acclaimed scholar Dr. Alfred Basta to stand entirely on its own, this tenth installment in the Christian Cross Trials series is a masterfully layered exploration of institutional guilt, historical truth, and the unshakeable power of repentance.
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