Redeeming Apologetics: Restoring Biblical Supremacy in Defending the Christian Faith

Jesus was the Master defender of the faith. And Jesus always used special revelation to defend it. Special revelation was His starting point. His favorite phrases when talking with skeptics, detractors, and unbelievers were, “Have you not read?” and “It is written.” He never resorted to natural theology. His Apostles never relied on sheer human reason to advance or defend the
gospel, but like their Master, they also began and ended with special revelation. So also, Christians today should defend the Christian faith with special revelation, just as Jesus and the Apostles did. And for us today, special revelation is found in Scripture, God’s infallible, inerrant, authoritative, holy Word—the Bible. This approach to defending the faith has been given various labels, most commonly presuppositionalism. And far from being recent, it is a tradition rooted in history tracing its roots back to Christ and the Bible itself. That is the argument Dr. Cliff McManis makes in this volume, while at the same time exposing the folly of the many common approaches to apologetics that lean on secular philosophy and unredeemed ideologies for their systems.