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There is a new apologetics book released this summer entitled “Understanding Christian Apologetics: Five Methods for Defending the Faith”. It examines five different methods defended by five different authors for doing apologetics: Classical, Evidential, Presuppositional, Cultural, and Ecclesial. Critiques are also offered for each method. I’m halfway through and it’s…
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[This is from the Introduction, authored by Timothy Paul Jones, to Understanding Christian Apologetics: Five Methods for Defending the Faith.] Jones identifies and defines four primary perspectives for doing apologetics: Classical Apologetics is defined as the “Two-step method that appeals to arguments from reason and nature to establish God’s existence…
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The resurrection of Christ is the center of my apologetics. While I incorporate multiple other areas into my apologetics (i.e., classical, evidential, cultural, ecclesial, expository apologetics; the reliability of the NT manuscripts, the problem of evil, ethics, transcendent arguments from beauty, morality, etc.), those are all peripheral issues that I…
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Classical apologetics reasons from general revelation to the existence of God. It seeks to prove the existence of God through empirical reflection (what we discern through our senses) and observation. It involves a two-step approach: 1) Appealing to nature & reason, and 2) Moving into defending special revelation. God gives…
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Christian Apologetics 