An outline of the article is as follows:
How Apologists Give Apologetics a Bad Name
- Apologists often overstate their case
- Apologists often do not speak with gentleness, love and respect
- Apologists are often not emotionally healthy
- Apologetics is often done in a cold, mechanical and rationalistic manner
- Apologists are often intellectually elitists
How People's Understanding of Christianity and Culture Gives Apologetics a Bad Name
- Apologetics is about the mind, but faith is considered about the heart
- Apologetics is considered irrelevant in our Postmodern Culture
What Needs to Happen Next
This is a great article that should give the reflective apologist pause.
You can find it here.
Courage and Godspeed,
Chad
Comments
Under that broad umbrella you have many different denominations, and a lot of conservative evangelical Christians aren't too comfortable with us sidling next to Catholics (for instance). Also, I know many evangelicals are reticent about many of us being old earthers (thank you Ken Ham). There's just a lot of labels we get lumped together as, primarily something to do with being "liberal", which usually have zero actual merit.