The Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church's Apologetic Witness

The Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church's Apologetic Witness

by Joshua D. Chatraw, Mark D. Allen
The Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church's Apologetic Witness

The Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church's Apologetic Witness

by Joshua D. Chatraw, Mark D. Allen

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Overview

Christianity Today 2024 Book Award Finalist (Apologetics/Evangelism)

Outreach 2024 Resource of the Year (Apologetics)

Southwestern Journal of Theology 2023 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Worldview and Apologetics)

What can we learn from Augustine about apologetics? This book shows how Augustine defended the faith in late antiquity and how his approach to engaging the culture has great significance for the apologetic task today.

Joshua Chatraw and Mark Allen, coauthors of the award-winning Apologetics at the Cross (an Outreach magazine and Gospel Coalition Resource of the Year), recover Augustine's mature apologetic voice to address the challenges facing today's church. The Augustine Way offers a compelling argument for Christian witness that is rooted in tradition and engaged with contemporary culture. It focuses on Augustine's best-known works, Confessions and The City of God, to retrieve his scriptural and ecclesial approach for a holistic apologetic witness.

This book will be useful for students as well as for pastors, church leaders, and practitioners of Christian apologetics. It puts pastors and churches back at the center of apologetics, transcending popular contemporary methods with a view to a more effective witness in post-Christendom.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781540962485
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/30/2023
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 1,155,357
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joshua D. Chatraw (PhD, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Billy Graham Chair of Evangelism and Cultural Engagement at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama.

Mark D. Allen (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is professor of biblical and theological studies at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. He has served as a pastor and church planter for over twenty years.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Time to Make Room at the Table
Part 1: Going Back for the Future
1. A Prodigal Son Returns Home . . . as an Apologist
2. An Augustinian Assessment of Contemporary Apologetics
Part 2: An Augustinian Vision for Today
3. A Renewed Posture
4. An Ecclesial Pilgrimage of Hope
5. A Therapeutic Approach
Conclusion: The Return of the Bishop
Index
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