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Evangelicals are beginning to provide analyses of our postmodern society, but little has been done to suggest an effective apologetic strategy for reaching a culture that is pluralistic, consumer-oriented, and infatuated with managerial and therapeutic approaches to life. This, then, is the first book to address that vital task. In these pages, some of evangelicalism's most stimulating thinkers consider three possible apologetic responses to postmodernity. William Lane Craig argues that traditional evidentialist apologetics remains viable and preferable. Roger Lundin, Nicola Creegan and James Sire find the postmodern critique of Christianity and Western culture more challenging, but reject central features of it. Philip Kenneson, Brian Walsh and J. Richard Middleton, on the other hand, argue that key aspects of postmodernity can be appropriated to defend orthodox Christianity. An essential feature is trenchant chapters by Douglas Webster, Ron Potter and Dennis Hollinger considering issues facing the local church in the light of postmodernity. The volume's editors and John Stackhouse add important introductory essays that orient the reader to postmodernity and various apologetic strategies. All this makes for a book indispensable for theologians, a wide range of students and reflective pastors. - Back cover.

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InterVarsity Press
Language
English
Pages
238

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Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World
2009, InterVarsity Press
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1995, InterVarsity Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis Okholm
The pragmatics of postmodernity / Roger Lundin
From architecture to argument : historic resources for Christian apologetics / John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Schleiermacher as apologist : reclaiming the father of modern theology / Nicola Hoggard Creegan
Politically incorrect salvation / William Lane Craig
On being a fool for Christ and an idiot for nobody : logocentricity and postmodernity / James W. Sire
Facing the postmodern scalpel : can the Christian faith withstand deconstruction? / J. Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh
There's no such thing as objective truth, and it's a good thing, too / Philip D. Kenneson
Christian apologetics in the African-American grain / Ronald Potter
The church as apologetic : a sociology of knowledge perspective / Dennis Hollinger
Evangelizing the church / Douglas Webster

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-233) and indexes.

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Downers Grove, Ill

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Dewey Decimal Class
239
Library of Congress
BT1102 .C48 1995, BT1102 .C48, BT1102.C48 1995

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Paperback
Pagination
238 p.
Number of pages
238
Dimensions
23 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL1270497M
Internet Archive
christianapologe0000unse
ISBN 10
083081860X
ISBN 13
9780830818600
LCCN
95001682
Library Thing
318816
Goodreads
721346

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