The Faithful Apologist: Rethinking the Role of Persuasion in Apologetics
Overview
As Christians, we’re called to give an answer for the hope we have in Christ. But too often, this task can feel like we’re doing PR work for God, limiting our apologetic work to a series of strategies and tactics. In The Faithful Apologist, Scott Oliphint shows that this doesn’t have to be the case. He provides a cross-centered foundation for Christians to explain their faith in a welcoming and winsome manner that avoids any burden to “sell” Christianity to non-Christians.
Drawing from the rich tradition of Reformed apologetics, Oliphint proposes a marriage between wisdom and persuasion in faith conversations. He shows that, when our faith is grounded in the Triune God and his sovereignty, our attempts to defend it will grow more confident and convincing. Accessible and thoroughly rooted in Scripture, this book takes the anxiety out of apologetics by revealing that success is not measured in the number of minds we change, but in our faithfulness to God, the Divine Persuader.
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- Draws from the rich tradition of Reformed apologetics
- Proposes a marriage between wisdom and persuasion in faith conversations
- Takes the anxiety out of apologetics
- Title: The Faithful Apologist: Rethinking the Role of Persuasion in Apologetics
- Author: K. Scott Oliphint
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 202
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Apologetics; Influence (Psychology) › Religious aspects--Christianity; Bible › Evidences, authority, etc
- ISBNs: 9780310590149, 9780310140252, 9780310590101, 9780310590125, 0310590140, 0310140250, 0310590108, 0310590124
- Resource ID: LLS:FTHFLPLGSPLGTCS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-06-02T23:51:57Z
Dr. K. Scott Oliphint, PhD, is professor of apologetics and systematic theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, and the author of numerous articles and books, including Is There a Reformed Objection to Natural Theology?: A Review Article, Using Reason by Faith, Bavinck’s Realism, the Logos Principle and Sola Scriptura, Something Much Too Plain to Say, Epistemology and Christian Belief, and Plantinga on Warrant. His books include The Battle Belongs to the Lord, Reasons for Faith, God with Us, and his most recent book, Covenantal Apologetics. He’s also the coeditor of the two-volume Christian Apologetics Past and Present: A Primary Source Reader and Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed Apologetics.