Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
God himself has always existed as a relational being; he exists in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Relationality is not something God was lacking before he created angels or human beings; relationality has always been fundamental to the nature of God himself, and by extension, reality. God has eternally been a personal God relating in c
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Our fundamental problem is vertical, which results in the horizontal issues we see all around us.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
the late modern does begin to wonder if they are missing something, that there is a hole in their lives, they don’t normally assume it is “God-shaped”
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
outside of faith, philosophy and reason must yield to the foolishness of the cross.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
people aren’t inanimate objects we speak the gospel at; they are unique individuals who have, for example, different life experiences and need to be spoken to differently.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
it is not only Christianity that cannot completely explain the problem of evil; no worldview can. The real question, then, is which worldview offers the most satisfying explanation of the problem of evil, which is both livable and intellectually defensible, even though that explanation will inevitably leave important questions unanswered.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
The idea of basic human dignity was a later development rooted in a Christian framework that was for centuries the backbone of the Western tradition and has remained a central feature in modern morality.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
In biblical usage, the word heart usually refers to all aspects of the human psyche.1 And in Matthew 22:37, when Jesus, referencing the Old Testament, commands, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind,” it seems that the meaning of these terms—heart, soul, and mind—overlaps in such a way that they c
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not that all humans and, by extension, cultures, agree on a particular moral standard, but that all humans and cultures have a moral standard and make moral judgments about what is good, bad, appropriate, inappropriate, meaningful, and inconsequential.