Series
Apologetics
BONUS: Advice for Apologetics (with Wes Huff)
Wes Huff joins Lig Duncan, Matt Smethurst, and Collin Hansen to discuss the role of apologetics in pastoral ministry and beyond. He answers several of the most common and hardest objections to Christianity.
Unexpected Pathways to Faith
Collin Hansen and Randy Newman discuss the complexities of faith, including motives, plausibility, certainty, and doubt.
5 Ways Pastors Can Improve Their Apologetic Preaching
Preaching apologetically is tough business, and we shouldn’t just read books in order to get better at it. Part of getting better at is doing apologetics, not only the pulpit, but also with our neighbors and friends. Nevertheless, reading is a critical part. So here are five reading habits to help develop your apologetics in the pulpit. First, familiarize yourself with how the Bible answers questions by reading, for instance, Ecclesiastes and the Gospels. This is the number one resource. Along with this develop a highly sophisticated systematic theology drawn from the Bible itself. The great danger of every apologetic...
Answering Objections to Presuppositionalism
Misconceptions of so-called presuppositional apologetics abound. One reason is surely the fault of presuppositionalists. As an apologetic “school,” emphases and tenets vary from person to person, according to one’s theological system. This is inevitable, but is also unfortunate because confusing, and is one reason why I think the moniker “covenantal” best applies to the apologetic approach argued by Cornelius Van Til. Whatever he might have in common with other apologists, Van Til’s approach is uniquely Reformed in a way the others are not. I have been asked to respond briefly to Paul Copan’s concerns about presuppositionalism as an apologetic methodology....
Questioning Presuppositionalism
Presuppositionalism begins with the assumption that God exists, and then concludes that God exists.
Fides Quaerens Intellectum: What Is Presuppositionalism?
After a considerable time of hibernation, partly due to living in a fearful world, partly due to Karl Barth’s skepticism about defending the faith, apologetics is enjoying a comeback. But which of the many schools is the most biblical and the most useful to the task of persuasion? We find revivals of the classical proofs, updates of the ontological and cosmological arguments. We find many varieties of evidentialism, from ID (intelligent design) to arguments from Jesus’ trial, the empty tomb, the New Testament documents’ reliability, and so on. And we find various forms of “humble apologetics,” using less aggressive arguments,...
