The end of Apologetics: Christian witness in a postmodern context
✍ Scribed by Penner, Myron Bradley
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group; Baker Academic
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 217 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Grand Rapids
- ISBN
- 1441259104
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The modern apologetic enterprise, according to Myron Penner, is no longer valid.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.;Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Apologetic Amnesia -- Apologetics, Suspicion, and Faith -- Irony, Witness, and the Ethics of Belief -- Witness and Truth -- The Politics of Witness -- Epilogue -- Index
✦ Subjects
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Apologetics