Apologetics, Good and Bad

Is the apologetic enterprise coercing people outside the Christian faith into a decision on which their eternal fate depends, conceding the terms of the debate to the culture's notion of what's important, or making fruitful contact in ways specific to the person and situation? (I bet you can guess our answer.) In this episode, Dad and I examine some worse ways of making a defense for the faith that is within us en route to some recommendations of a more excellent way. Plus, Sarah complains even more about Tillich.

Notes:

1. Related episodes: The Bible in One Hand and the Newspaper in the Other?, Chalcedon vs Luther, The Resurrection, Good Tillich, Bad Tillich, Niebuhr, Critical Social Theory, An Unlikely Marriage, Luther and the Jews

2. McDowell, Evidence That Demands a Verdict

3. Pannenberg, Jesus: God and Man

4. Tillich, Systematic Theology vol. 1

5. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine

6. Sarah's book of law-gospel parables, Pearly Gates

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