Who's Afraid of the Unmoved Mover?: Postmodernism and Natural Theology

Are postmodern philosophy and Christian theology compatible? A surprising number of Christian philosophers and theologians think so. However these same thinkers argue that postmodern insights entail the rejection of natural theology the ability to discover knowledge about the existence and nature of God in the natural world. Postmodernism they claim shows that appealing to nature to demonstrate or infer the existence of God is foolish because these appeals rely on modernitys outmoded grounds for knowledge. Moreover natural theology and apologetics are often hindrances to authentic Christian faith. Notions like objectivity and rationality are forms of idolatry from which Christians should repent. This book carefully examines the nature of truth rationality general revelation and evangelism to show that the postmodern objections fail and that Christians ought to lovingly and faithfully use natural theology and apologetics to defend and commend the Christian faith to a world in need of the knowledge of God.