Every Generation Asks “Why?”
I was a mature Christian, I understood basic doctrines, … but what I didn’t know was how to articulate and explain and defend people’s questions about Christianity. Patty is a Bible teacher and former public school teacher who, in the 1990s, didn’t know how to answer the questions she was getting from converted New Agers […]
The Fourth Quarter of Life
In the fall of 2012, Gordon was sitting in his office, staring at his bookcase. He was about to turn 60, and as a devoted football fan, he began thinking about how he was entering the fourth quarter of his life. “In football, that’s when you win the game,” he said. Gordon was content where […]
Who Cares About Philosophy?
What do these questions have in common: Does God exist? Can God change? Does God know our future? How can a good God allow evil? How do humans know? What does it mean to know? What does it mean to be good? Can we objectively interpret the Bible? The answer: all of these questions are […]
The ‘ABC’s and 123’s’ of Classical Apologetics: A Response to Our Presuppositional Brothers
Recently, I had the truly great privilege of providing color commentary for my friend and mentor, long-time SES professor Dr. Richard Howe, as we had a lively dialog with two presuppositional brothers from the T.A.G. You’re It podcast. You can watch the full dialog here. Dave and Ray Ray, our interlocutors, were very gracious, and […]
A Review of ‘Humble Apologetics: Defending the Faith Today’
John G. Stackhouse, Jr. is professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada where he teaches, among other courses, World Religions. His book Humble Apologetics: Defending the Faith Today (Oxford University Press, 2002) is divided into three parts. Part one, titled “Challenges,” concerns the pluralism, postmodernism, and consumerist influence found in North American […]
Why Classical Apologetics?
The following is an excerpt for our Why Trust the God of the Bible? ebook. One distinctive of Southern Evangelical Seminary that the reader has seen displayed throughout this booklet’s argumentation is a commitment to Classical Apologetics.1 To say that an apologetic method is ‘classical’ is to say something about how SES does apologetics. It […]