Academic

• ISBN :9780310559412
• Format :Hardback
• Pricing Attribute :Normal
• Page Count :848
• Dimensions :160 x 236 x 43mm
• Publication Date :15/06/2020
• Publisher :Zondervan (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Author :Benjamin Forrest

Description :Explore Apologetics through the Lives of History's Great Apologists

The History of Apologetics follows the great apologists in the history of the church to understand how they approached the task of apologetics in their own cultural and theological context. Each chapter looks at the life of a well-known apologist from history, unpacks their methodology, and details how they approached the task of defending the faith.

By better understanding how apologetics has been done, readers will be better able to grasp the contextualized nature of apologetics and apply those insights to today's context. The History of Apologetics covers forty-four apologists including:

Part One: Patristic Apologists

Justin Martyr by Gerald Bray

Irenaeus of Lyons by Stephen O. Presley

Athenagoras of Athens by W. Brian Shelton

Tertullian of Carthage by Bryan M. Litfin

Origen by A. Chadwick Thornhill

Athanasius of Alexandria by Jonathan Morgan

Augustine of Hippo by Chad Meister

Part Two: Medieval Apologists

John of Damascus by Daniel J. Janosik

Theodore Abu Qurrah by Byard Bennett

Timothy I of Baghdad by Edward L. Smither and Trevor Castor

Anselm of Canterbury by Edward N. Martin and Steven B. Cowan

Saint Thomas Aquinas by Francis J. Beckwith and Shawn Floyd

Ramon Lull by Greg Peters

Gregory Palamas by Byard Bennett

Part Three: Early Modern Apologists

Hugo Grotius by Bryan Baise

Blaise Pascal by Tyler Dalton McNabb and Michael R. DeVito

Jonathan Edwards by Michael McClymond

William Paley by Charles Taliaferro

Joseph Butler by David McNaughton

Part Four: 19th C. Apologists

Simon Greenleaf by Craig A. Parton

John Henry Newman by Corneliu C. Simut

Soren Kierkegaard by Sean A. Turchin and Christian Kettering

James Orr by Ronnie Campbell

B. B. Warfield by Kim Riddlebarger

Part Five: 20th C. American Apologists

J. Gresham Machen by D. G. Hart

Cornelius Van Til by K. Scott Oliphint

Gordon Haddon Clark by Robert A. Weathers

Francis A. Schaeffer by William Edgar

Edward John Carnell by Steven A. Hein

Part Six: 20th C. European Apologists

A. E. Taylor by Michael O. Obanla and David Baggett

G. K. Chesterton by Ralph Wood

Dorothy Sayers by Amy Orr-Ewing

C. S. Lewis by Alister McGrath

Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Matthew D. Kirkpatrick

Lesslie Newbigin by Krish Kandiah

Part Seven: Contemporary Apologists

John Warwick Montgomery by Craig A. Parton

Charles Taylor by Bruce Riley Ashford and Matthew Ng

Alvin Plantinga by James Beilby

Richard Swinburne by Greg Welty

Ravi Zacharias by Jo Vitale and Vince Vitale

William Lane Craig by R. Keith Loftin

Gary R. Habermas by W. David Beck and Benjamin C. F. Shaw

Alister E. McGrath by James K. Dew and Jordan Steffaniak

Timothy Keller by Joshua D. Chatraw