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Humble Apologetics - Defending the Faith Today (Paperback, New edition)
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Humble Apologetics - Defending the Faith Today (Paperback, New edition)
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Is it still possible, in an age of religious and cultural
pluralism, to engage in Christian apologetics? How can one urge
one's faith on others when such a gesture is typically regarded
with suspicion, if not outright resentment? In Humble Apologetics
John G. Stackhouse brings his wide experience as a historian,
philosopher, journalist, and theologian to these important
questions and offers surprising-and reassuring-answers. Stackhouse
begins by acknowledging the real impediments to Christian testimony
in North America today and to other faiths in modern societies
around the world. He shows how pluralism, postmodernism, skepticism
about our ability to know the truth, and a host of other factors
create a cultural milieu resistant to the Christian message. And he
shows how the arrogance or dogmatism of apologists themselves can
alienate rather than attract potential converts. Indeed, Stackhouse
argues that the crucial experience of conversion cannot be
compelled; all the apologist can do is lead another to the point
where an actual encounter with Jesus can take place. "Our
objective," Stackhouse writes, "is to offer whatever assistance we
can to our neighbors toward their full maturity: toward full health
in themselves and in their relationships, and especially toward
God." In the last part of the book, he shows how an attitude of
humility, instead of merely trying to win religious arguments, will
help believers offer their neighbors the gift of Christ's love.
Drawing on the author's personal experience and written with an
engaging directness and humility, Humble Apologetics provides sound
guidance on how to share Christian faith in a postmodern world.
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