A Sea Of Red

Christianity Today posted the following story talking about the recent phenomenon among Evangelicals in studying defending their faith ...

A New Day for Apologetics
People young and old are flocking to hear — and be changed by — winsome arguments for the Christian faith.

Troy Anderson | posted 7/02/2008 08:50AM

Despite all the recent attacks on faith—or, perhaps, because of them—these are definitely the best of times for Christian apologists such as Lee Strobel, William Lane Craig, Ben Witherington III, Darrell Bock, and J. P. Moreland. They are making documentaries, writing books, giving media interviews, attending debates and conferences, and presenting the public with what they say is a growing mountain of scientific and archaeological evidence documenting the truth of Christianity.

"There has been a resurgence in Christian apologetics as a direct result of the challenges Christianity has faced in the form of militant atheism in college classrooms, on the Internet, and in TV documentaries and best-selling books," says Strobel, former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and most recently the author of The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ.

Dinesh D'Souza, who wrote What's So Great About Christianity? (CT, March 2008), says the New Atheists are raising new types of questions requiring "21st-century apologetics."

"The apologetics of the 1970s and '80s are useful if you are teaching in a church camp, but it's not that relevant to the claims the New Atheists are making, which are very different," D'Souza says. "The New Atheists are really surfing the waves of 9/11, equating Islamic radicalism with Christianity. These are not questions addressed by C. S. Lewis or Josh McDowell."

And we get a mention for our place ...

Last summer, hundreds had to be turned away from a Focus on the Family- sponsored apologetics conference for teenagers that drew an overflow crowd of 1,500. Meanwhile, the hotbeds of apologetics education—Biola University and its Talbot School of Theology (CT, June 2003), Southern Evangelical Seminary, and Liberty University —are crammed with students pursuing graduate degrees in philosophy and apologetics.

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I know we have some FlameFans who either have or are now studying Apologetics. I'd love to hear your perspective.

Despite all the recent attacks on faith—or, perhaps, because of them—these are definitely the best of times for Christian apologists such as Lee Strobel, William Lane Craig, Ben Witherington III, Darrell Bock, and J. P. Moreland.

J.P. Moreland is a former LU School of Religion professor.

Gary Habermas didn't get a mention but he clearly is one of the leading apologetics experts in the world.

And how cool was the Evil Knievel-Lee Strobel connection at the end?

#15 gave me a signed copy of D'Souza's book after he spoke at Liberty.
Excellent read, I reccomend it.

FlameDad wrote:#15 gave me a signed copy of D'Souza's book after he spoke at Liberty.
Excellent read, I reccomend it.

I was going to ask if anyone has read his book. I have been wanting to read it as I am curious as to how he responds to the new atheists. I like his point that apologetics has not brought itself to answer these new claims as well as it should have. I agree with him on that, though he will undoubtedly argue it much better than me.

Anybody else read it? Recommend it? Critique it? Thinks he's on the right track?

Anyone? Anyone?

I'm going to give it a read but I'm finishing up another book right now.

Sly Fox wrote:I'm going to give it a read but I'm finishing up another book right now.

Me too. I had to throw out some Ferris Bueller.