Timothy Phillips and Dennis Okholm’s
“Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World”


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Title:
Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World
Editors:
Timothy Phillips and Dennis Okholm
Binding:
Paperback
Publisher:

Intervarsity May 1995
ISBN:
083081860X
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Review Date:
21 September, 1998
Reviewer:
J. P. Holding
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Synopsis:

"Evangelicals are beginning to provide analyses of our postmodern society, but little has been done to suggest an effective apologetic strategy for reaching a culture that is pluralistic, consumer-oriented and infatuated with managerial and therapeutic approaches to life. This, then, is the first book to address that vital task."

Bookshop Summary:  Several essays of a mostly practical nature for being an apologist in modern settings. Not all are of the same value.
 
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A review of Timothy Phillips and Dennis Okholm's Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World

by
J. P. Holding
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Perhaps by now we have had our fill of post-modernism. Unfortunately, it's the latest fad, and we need to know how to deal with it. This set of essays contains a few helpful hints, but at the same time a great deal that will be only marginally relevant to the majority of readers.

After the obligatory essays that open the book by describing post-modernism and its effects on the church (especially apologetics), we have an excellent exposition by William Lane Craig concerning the problem of Christian exclusivity in a world that worships diversity. Almost as helpful is the essay following by James Sire concerning post-modernism's "antilogocentric" (that is, "against writing") attitude, which has obvious implications for treatment of the Bible.

The remainder of the essays are, unfortunately, of much narrower interest, and with the exception of minor points of practical application, will be of little use to the average reader. We find this book only somewhat useful, at least to those without particular interest in the post-modern phenomenon.


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