Apologetic methods should not be understood apart from the climatic event of Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, and ascension.

It is the Holy Spirit who enables us to see the beauty, goodness, and truth of the gospel.

By questioning an unbeliever’s presuppositions and requiring them to justify their rationality, the apologist reduces their position to absurdity. Once the unbeliever realizes that their current worldview cannot provide sufficient justification, Christianity is then articulated as the only option that makes rational sense of the world.

there are religious reasons why modern science emerged in Christian Europe and not in such sophisticated societies as China, ancient Greece, and Islamic nations.30 For example, when the cosmos is viewed as “an emanation of the absolute spirit,” as in some other religions, modern science is unable to get off the ground.31 Among other factors, it was

While it’s one thing to make the gospel message as accessible as possible, it’s quite another to allow the thought forms of a given culture to change the gospel. Be warned: If taken too far, apologetics can negotiate away the very soul of the church, the very heart of Christianity.

Throughout church history, there have been apologists and theologians who have so thoroughly conformed the gospel to the assumptions of their day that they lost its most essential tenets.

The fact that some bystanders believed the apostles were babbling drunks shows how God may give a clear apologetic, yet some people will misinterpret it. Further revelation is often needed to understand a divine act.

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

We shouldn’t expect others to take us seriously if we’re not willing to take them seriously.