A Place to Stand: Apologetics in an Uncertain Age
Overview
“Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.” These words are attributed to Archimedes, the third century BC Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor who proved the law of the lever by geometry. Every person needs a place to stand in order to be effective in life. Christ and the Bible give one a place to stand. The time in which we live has been described as the postmodern age. It is an age characterized by an absence of absolute truth and tolerance of every view, even contradictory ones, as being equally valid. The greatest sin in the postmodern world is lack of tolerance. How, then, can one insist that the Bible is the absolute truth of God? How can one say that Christ is the only way of salvation? Or that there is an absolute standard of morality? If one accepts the postmodern view his attitude toward the Bible, Christ, and morality will change. Our speakers this year are challenging the assumptions of postmodernism and showing us that we do have a place to stand. The worldview of the Christian provides not only a vantage point from which to view the postmodern world, but a firm place to stand in a world that seems to be made of sand.
- Title: A Place to Stand: Apologetics in an Uncertain Age
- Author: Ferrell Jenkins
- Series: Florida College Annual Lectures
- Publisher: Florida College Bookstore
- Print Publication Date: 1999
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Apologetics; Churches of Christ › Congresses
- Resource ID: LLS:FCL1999PLCSTAND
- Resource Type: text.monograph.lecture
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