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| Introduction | |
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| Creating Openings for Faith | |
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| The Theological Foundations of Effective Apologetics | |
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| Apologetics Is Grounded in the Doctrines of Creation and Redemption | |
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| Apologetics Is Grounded in God's Ability to Communicate Himself Through Human Language | |
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| Apologetics Is Theologically Informed | |
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| Apologetics Addresses Itself to Specific Audiences | |
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| Points of Contact | |
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| A Sense of Unsatisfied Longing | |
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| Human Rationality | |
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| The Ordering of the World | |
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| Human Morality | |
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| Existential Anxiety and Alienation | |
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| Awareness of Finitude and Mortality | |
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| The Point of Contact and Evangelistic Preaching | |
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| From Assent to Commitment | |
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| The Nature of Faith | |
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| Apologetics Does Not Create Faith | |
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| The Limitations of Apologetics | |
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| The Point of Contact as Point of Departure | |
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| The Decision to Believe | |
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| Overcoming Barriers to Faith | |
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| What Keeps People from Becoming Christians | |
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| Intellectual Barriers to Faith | |
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| The Historical Associations of Christianity | |
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| The Problem of Relevance | |
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| Misunderstandings of the Nature of Christianity | |
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| The Hunger for Absolute Certainty | |
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| Prior Commitment to Another Belief System | |
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| The Problem of Personal Integrity | |
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| A Sense of Guilt or Inadequacy | |
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| Intellectual Barriers to Faith | |
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| God as Wish Fulfillment? | |
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| Suffering | |
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| Religious Pluralism | |
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| The Resurrection | |
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| The Divinity of Christ | |
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| Sin and Salvation | |
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| A Clash of Worldviews | |
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| Enlightenment Rationalism | |
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| Marxism | |
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| Scientific Materialism | |
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| Feminism | |
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| Postmodernism | |
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| The New Age | |
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| Apologetics in Action | |
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| From Textbook to Real Life | |
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| Apologetics as Dialogue | |
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| Apologetics and Preaching | |
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| The Appeal to the Imagination | |
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| Apologetics and Literary Forms | |
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| The Appeal to Culture | |
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| We Have Time for a Few Questions ... | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| The Point of Contact in Classical Evangelical Thought | |
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| A Critique of Presuppositionalism | |
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| Notes | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Index | |