Because Hauerwas & Wllimon are so quotable: Apologetics is based on the political assumption that Christians somehow have a stake in transforming our ecclesial claims into intellectual assumptions that will enable us to be faithful to Christ while still participating in the political structures of a world that does not yet know Christ. Transform the … Read more →
I was walking and thinking yesterday evening (I know that, as a man, this was a dangerous straining of my multi-tasking capabilities) and out of my thought-stream came a thought or two about Christian apologetics. Apologetics is all about defending the Christian faith against its critics, and it’s been going on almost right from the … Read more →
My last post was about a number of reasons why arguing for the existence of God may be futile. At the same time, I feel like measuring the validity of arguing for God’s existence may be too narrowly defined by its success in making converts. Allow me to explain. By and large, we live in … Read more →
The issue of arguments for (or against) God’s existence continually crops up in my thinking. Sometimes I wonder if they’re a misguided use of time and energy. At other times it seems like the very continuation of faith in our culture depends upon it. It can easily be understood that, in a pluralitstic society that … Read more →