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See Tim Keller’s accessible and incredibly helpful overview of Alasdair MacIntyre’s book Whose Justice? Which Rationality? in the article “A Biblical Critique of Secular Justice and Critical Theory,” Life in the Gospel. Dr. Keller, you are deeply missed.

If I am opposed to the epistemology, or theory of knowledge, that plagues modern Christianity, then I am also opposed to the ecclesiology (or lack thereof ) that accompanies this modernist version of the faith.

my strategy is “Schaefferian” in the sense that my primary audience is not just philosophers but practitioners—more specifically, Christians engaged in ministry in a postmodern world, as well as searching inhabitants of this postmodern world. As such, these essays are not an academic project per se.

The danger is that evidence-based apologists may treat people like “cognitive machines, defined above all, by thought and rational operations”4 and therefore see their job primarily as pouring the right information “into” non-Christians and getting the wrong information “out” so that they will assent to the propositions of Christianity.

Tom was frustrated because he felt his parents wouldn’t even listen to his viewpoints anymore. An attitude of cynicism had replaced some of their former openness.

Humans are whole beings, and a person’s brain cannot be neatly separated from their body. Thus, the way an apologist’s nonbelieving friends will respond to their case for Christianity will be strongly affected by how that apologist cares for them both emotionally and physically.