The Cultural Apologetics

<p><strong>Renewing the Christian voice conscience and imagination so that we can become compelling witnesses of the Gospel in today's culture. </strong></p><p>Christianity has an image problem. While the culture we inhabit presents us with an increasingly anti-Christian and disenchanted position the church in the West has not helped its case by becoming anti-intellectual fragmented and out of touch with the relevancy of Jesus to all aspects of contemporary life.</p><p>The muting of the Christian voice its imagination and its collective conscience have diminished the prospect of having a genuine missionary encounter with others today.</p><p>Cultural apologetics attempts to demonstrate not only the truth of the Gospel but also its desirability by reestablishing Christianity as the answer that satisfies our three universal human longings--truth goodness and beauty.</p><p>In <em>Cultural Apologetics</em> philosopher and professor Paul Gould sets forth a fresh and uplifting model for cultural engagement--rooted in the biblical account of Paul's speech in Athens--which details practical steps for establishing Christianity as both true and beautiful reasonable and satisfying.</p><p>You'll be introduced to: </p><ul><li>The idea of cultural apologetics as distinct from traditional apologetics.</li><li>The path from disenchantment with how we understand reality to re-enchantment with the reality of the spiritual nature of things.</li><li>The practical tools of good cultural engagement: conscience reason and imagination.</li></ul><p>Equip yourself to see and help others see the world as it is through the lens of the Spirit--deeply beautiful mysterious and sacred. With creative insights <em>Cultural Apologetics</em> prepares readers to share a vision of the Christian faith that is both plausible and desirable offering clarity for those who have become disoriented in the haze of modern Western culture.</p>