Apologetics old and new

Repackaging classical arguments for a relativistic age | Matthew P. Ristuccia

Experts and eighth-graders tell us that we've entered postmodern times. The once-vaunted world of empirical science and enlightenment rationalism has faded under the glare of a new light, that of extreme relativism and individualized meaning-making. Four books published last year can help Christians to think and speak wisely in such times. Each updates classical apologetics (i.e., the use of reasoned arguments and evidences) for postmodern use.

Let's start with Reasons for Faith (Crossway), edited by Norman Geisler and Chad Meister. Geisler is a longtime leader of classical apologetics in America, consistently promoting the power of rational argument to defend orthodoxy, and contributors include many well-known for favored evidentialist and rationalist approaches: Josh McDowell, John Warwick Montgomery, J.P. Moreland.