Intellectuals don't need God and other modern myths : building bridges to faith through apologetics
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Intellectuals don't need God and other modern myths : building bridges to faith through apologetics
Zondervan, 1993
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Bridge-building
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Originally published: Bridge-building. Leicester : InterVarsity Press, 1992
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Rethinking Effective Apologetics for the Present Age.
Christians have always had to defend their faith against all kinds of criticism and misunderstandings, but these attacks change overtime, and the strongest arguments of the famous classical apologists who preceded us are not necessarily the strongest today.
Intellectuals Don't Need God is written to today's faithful apologists who are trying to commend Christianity in terms of its relevance to everyday life and not just its inherent rationality. Its focuses are:
Understanding and overcoming the barriers of faith in today's culture.
Presenting the points of contact between daily life and spiritual longing.
Demonstrating the apologetics of today in action.
Theologian and scientist, Dr. Alister McGrath (author of the ECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winning biography of C. S. Lewis) shows convincingly that appeal to reason is only one of many possible bridges between the non-Christian and the gospel. In today's world, cerebral and emotional concerns-such as a sense that life lacks purpose or a deep sense of longing for something unknown-are often more effective starting points for modern apologetics.
Dr. McGrath combines the clarity of a brilliant scientific mind with a deep commitment to Christ and to reaching non-Christians. Intellectuals Don't Need God is for apologists and seekers alike-for both those defending and questioning the validity and value of Christianity.
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Contents
Introduction
Part 1: CREATING OPENINGS FOR FAITH
1. The Theological Foundations of Effective Apologetics
A. Apologetics Is Grounded in the Doctrines of Creation and Redemption
B. Apologetics Is Grounded in God's Ability to Communicate Himself Through Human Language
C. Apologetics Is Theologically Informed
D. Apologetics Addresses Itself to Specific Audiences
2. Points of Contact
A. A Sense of Unsatisfied Longing
B. Human Rationality
C. The Ordering of the World
D. Human Morality
E. Existential Anxiety and Alienation
F. Awareness of Finitude and Mortality
G. The Point of Contact and Evangelistic Preaching
3. From Assent to Commitment
A. The Nature of Faith
B. Apologetics Does Not Create Faith
C. The Limitations of Apologetics
D. The Point of Contact as Point of Departure
E. The Decision to Believe
Part 2: OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO FAITH
4. What Keeps People from Becoming Christians
A. Intellectual Barriers to Faith
B. The Historical Associations of Christianity
C. The Problem of Relevance
D. Misunderstandings of the Nature of Christianity
E. The Hunger for Absolute Certainty
F. Prior Commitment to Another Belief System
G. The Problem of Personal Integrity
H. A Sense of Guilt or Inadequacy
5. Intellectual Barriers to Faith
A. God as Wish Fulfillment?
B. Suffering
C. Religious Pluralism
D. The Resurrection
E. The Divinity of Christ
F. Sin and Salvation
6. A Clash of Worldviews
A. Enlightenment Rationalism
B. Marxism
C. Scientific Materialism
D. Feminism
E. Postmodernism
F. The New Age
Part 3: APOLOGETICS IN ACTION
7. From Textbook to Real Life
A. Apologetics as Dialogue
B. Apologetics and Preaching
C. The Appeal to the Imagination
D. Apologetics and Literary Forms
E. The Appeal to Culture
F. We Have Time for a Few Questions ...
G. Concluding Remarks
Appendix A. The Point of Contact in Classical Evangelical Thought: John Calvin
Appendix B. A Critique of Presuppositionalism: Cornelius van Til
Notes
For Further Reading
Index
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