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Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World

Author : Timothy R. Phillips,Dennis L. Okholm
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830874720

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Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World by Timothy R. Phillips,Dennis L. Okholm Pdf

Evangelicals are beginning to provide analyses of our postmodern society, but little has been done to suggest an effective apologetic strategy for reaching a culture that is pluralistic, consumer-oriented, and infatuated with managerial and therapeutic approaches to life. This, then, is the first book to address that vital task. In these pages some of evangelicalism's most stimulating thinkers consider three possible apologetic responses to postmodernity. William Lane Craig argues that traditional evidentialist apologetics remains viable and preferable. Roger Lundin, Nicola Creegan and James Sire find the postmodern critique of Christianity and Western culture more challenging, but reject central features of it. Philip Kenneson, Brian Walsh and J. Richard Middleton, on the other hand, argue that key aspects of postmodernity can be appropriated to defend orthodox Christianity. An essential feature are trenchent chapters by Ronald Clifton Potter, Dennis Hollinger and Douglas Webster considering issues facing the local church in light of postmodernity. The volumes editors and John Stackhouse also add important introductory essays that orient the reader to postmodernity and various apologetic strategies. All this makes for a book indispensable for theologians, a wide range of students and reflective pastors.

Christian Belief in a Postmodern World

Author : Diogenes Allen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804206252

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This book provides a philosophical argument for the reasonableness of Christian faith in today's world. Diogenes Allen shows how Christian belief is now being supported by scientific and philosophical principles--perhaps for the first time in 300 years.

The End of Apologetics

Author : Myron Bradley Penner
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441251091

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The modern apologetic enterprise, according to Myron Penner, is no longer valid. It tends toward an unbiblical and unchristian form of Christian witness and does not have the ability to attest truthfully to Christ in our postmodern context. In fact, Christians need an entirely new way of conceiving the apologetic task. This provocative text critiques modern apologetic efforts and offers a concept of faithful Christian witness that is characterized by love and grounded in God's revelation. Penner seeks to reorient the discussion of Christian belief, change a well-entrenched vocabulary that no longer works, and contextualize the enterprise of apologetics for a postmodern generation.

Apologetic Preaching

Author : Craig A. Loscalzo
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830815759

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Craig Loscalzo gives down-to-earth advice on how to communicate clearly and compellingly to a world that does not want to hear about morality, sin, evil, judgment or commitment. He gives straightforward explanations of the changes taking place all around us, including brief sample sermons in each chapter.

Postmodern Apologetics?:Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy

Author : Christina M. Gschwandtner
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823242740

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Postmodern Apologetics?:Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy by Christina M. Gschwandtner Pdf

Postmodern Apologetics provides an introduction to contemporary French thinkers who argue for the coherence and viability of Christian faith and religious experience with phenomenological and hermeneutical tools. It treats both French philosophers and appropriations of their thought in the North American context.

Postmodernity

Author : Paul Lakeland
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 145141630X

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More than a guidebook to the postmodernity debate, Paul Lakeland's lively and novel volume clarifies the critical impulses behind the cultural, intellectual, and scientific expressions of postmodern thought. He identifies the issues it presents for religion and for Christian theology. Concentrating on God, Church, and Christ, Lakeland outlines the church's mission to the postmodern world, including a constructive theological apologetics.

The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World

Author : John Piper,David F. Wells,D. A. Carson,Voddie Baucham Jr.,Timothy Keller
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 158134922X

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The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World by John Piper,David F. Wells,D. A. Carson,Voddie Baucham Jr.,Timothy Keller Pdf

Believers who wish to thrive in a postmodern world must cling to the joy, truth, and love that comes only from understanding Christ and his ultimate purpose in this world.

Thinking About Christian Apologetics

Author : James K. Beilby
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830869428

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Most introductions to apologetics begin with the "how to" of defending the faith, diving right into the major apologetic arguments and the body of evidence. For those who want a more foundational look at this contested theological discipline, this book examines Christian apologetics in its nature, history, approaches, objections and practice. What is apologetics? How has apologetics developed? What are the basic apologetic approaches? Why should we practice apologetics? Countless Christians today are seeking a responsibe way to defend and commend their faith. If you are one them, Thinking About Christian Apologetics is the place to start.

Postmodern Times

Author : Gene Edward Veith (Jr.)
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Christian sociology
ISBN : 9780891077688

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Postmodern Times by Gene Edward Veith (Jr.) Pdf

The cultural landscape is now made up of diverse "communities"--feminists, gays, neo-conservatists, African-Americans, pro-lifers--who seem to have no common frame of reference by which to communicate with each other. Veith offers Christians instructions as to how they can respond to these varied groups.

Can You Believe It's True?

Author : John S. Feinberg
Publisher : Crossway Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 1433539004

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Can You Believe It's True? by John S. Feinberg Pdf

Truth? Can we know it? Noted scholar John Feinberg counters modern and postmodern skepticism, arguing that truth is both real and knowable. He makes a compelling case for Christian truth, epistemology, and apologetics through careful analysis and skilled argumentation.

Can You Believe It's True?

Author : John S. Feinberg
Publisher : Crossway Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433539020

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Can You Believe It's True? by John S. Feinberg Pdf

Truth? Can we know it? Many people today would say no-we can't. This paradigmatic shift to relativism presents a direct challenge to the Christian's witness and the challenge must be answered. In this timely new resource, noted scholar John Feinberg argues that truth is both real and knowable, offering us a robust guide to Christian apologetics for engagement with our world today.

Above All Earthly Pow'rs

Author : David F. Wells
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802824554

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Above All Earthly Pow'rs by David F. Wells Pdf

In this prophetic call to the evangelical church, Wells stresses that Christians need to confess Christ as the center in a society lacking a center, as the sovereign in a world seemingly ruled by chance, and as the one who can give meaning in a nihilistic culture.

Truth and the New Kind of Christian

Author : R. Scott Smith
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433518430

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Truth and the New Kind of Christian by R. Scott Smith Pdf

The latest clarion call in the never-ending cavalcade of "what's new" in the evangelical world is the confident assertion from some quarters that the church needs to embrace "postmodernism" if it is going to engage postmoderns effectively. Pastors trying to break down the often indigestible subject matter of postmodernism into bite-size chunks in order to equip their people to engage it, and teachers who are aiming at giving their students a working knowledge of the way postmodernism is impacting the church will find a good deal of help from Smith. -J. Ligon Duncan III, Senior Minister, First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Scott Smith and I agree on a lot. We share a deep commitment to Jesus Christ, a love of the Bible, and a passion for the church. We also agree that we're currently living in a liminal time, and it's those "boundary times" when people look most closely at the beliefs that underlie their practices. So, we've all got some things to figure out right now, including what we can really know and the certainty with which we can state our claims in a pluralistic society. I appreciate Scott's voice in this conversation. He is a careful reader of my work, and he writes with a gracious and generous tone. Interlocutors like Scott will be a helpful challenge to all of us in the "emerging church." I consider him a friendly critic and a brother in Christ. -Tony Jones, author of Postmodern Youth Ministry and National Director, Emergent Scott Smith is uniquely suited to enter the Emergent conversation with this helpful volume. Not only is he an analytic philosopher with a razor-sharp mind who has specialized in analyzing postmodernistic views on the relationship between language and the world, but he is also a man who cares for the lost, loves the church, and has an ability to communicate complex truths to people in the pew. -Justin Taylor, Executive Editor, Desiring God Every leader in the new Emergent Movement will want to read this fascinating book. They simply will not find a more engaging, knowledgeable, balanced, and kind treatment of their concerns, ideas, and practices. -Craig J. Hazen, Professor of Comparative Religion, Biola University Scott Smith's study challenges us to take seriously the truth claim of the gospel both in how we proclaim it in words and in how we manifest it in our personal and community lives. -Gary Inrig, Senior Pastor, Trinity Church, Redlands, California

Christianity and the Postmodern Turn

Author : Myron B. Penner
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 144120251X

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In our post-Cold War, post-colonial, post-Christian world, Western culture is experiencing a dramatic shift. Correspondingly, says Myron Penner, recent philosophy has taken a postmodern turn in which traditional concepts of reality, truth, language, and knowledge have been radically altered, if not discarded. Here James K.A. Smith, John Franke, Merold Westphal, Kevin Vanhoozer, Douglas Geivett, and R. Scott Smith respond to the question, "What perils and/or promises does the postmodern turn hold for the tasks of Christian thinkers?" Addressing topics such as the nature of rationality and biblical faith, the relationship of language to reality, and the impact of postmodern concerns on ethics, this book presents a variety of positions in vigorous dialogue with each other.

Preaching to a Postmodern World

Author : Graham M. Johnston
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441201505

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While growing churches dot our urban centers and country landscapes, church-goers and students today are actually less likely to maintain a Christian worldview than in the past. In fact, the majority of society does not even believe in objective truth. A minister out of touch with this culture is like an uninformed missionary trying to teach in a foreign country. To communicate God's Word effectively in the twenty-first century, teachers need to know how to connect with and confront an audience of postmodern listeners. In Preaching to a Postmodern World, Johnston shows pastors, seminary students, professors, lay teachers, and church leaders can reach the present age without selling out to it. The book discusses how to: • distinguish between modernism and postmodernism • understand postmodern worldviews • change the style of preaching without compromising the substance • take advantage of new opportunities provided by the cultural shift • show an inattentive society the relevance of God's truth The author's keen insights into contemporary pop and media culture also help equip speakers to address today's listeners with clarity and relevance.