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Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Apologetics for a New Generation

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Christian, Talbot, Church, Culture, Biola, Think Biblically, Christianity, Sean Mcdowell, Scott Rae, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What should apologetics look like for this generation? What does it mean that apologetics is for everyone, not just specialists? How is the gospel good news, especially for women? We’ll discuss these questions and more with Sean around his new book Apologetics for an Ever-Changing Culture. ========== Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith and Culture is a podcast from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, which offers degrees both online and on campus in Southern California....

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0:00.0

What should apologetics look like for this current generation?

0:05.0

What does it mean that apologetics is for everyone and not just for specialists?

0:09.0

And how is the gospel good news, especially for women?

0:13.0

We'll discuss these questions and a whole lot more around the new book that Sean is edited entitled Apologetics for an Ever-Changing Culture.

0:20.0

I'm your host today, Sean, my guest.

0:22.2

So great to have the book out, such a good volume, lots of really good contributors.

0:28.2

How did you decide, this is the book you edited and contributed a bit to as well.

0:32.0

But how did you decide which topics and which authors to use?

0:40.9

It was two things. Number one, what issues did we need to cover? And there's certain timeless issues like Jesus, for example, that we're going to talk

0:45.8

about in our – that's kind of important. Got to include that in our cultural moment. But then there's

0:50.4

certain new issues that arise that people are trying to figure out,

0:54.2

how do I engage my neighbor on this?

0:55.8

How do I think Christianly about this?

0:58.0

And then the other thing, it was like, what challenges and tasks do we have in defending

1:02.8

the faith today and doing evangelism that people need practical tools to do it well?

1:09.6

So it's kind of a book in which we cover certain issues.

1:12.5

But even those issues like when we go into new thought, it's not like a chapter just on

1:16.1

understanding it.

1:17.0

It's more like, how do I engage my neighbors who believe this stuff, especially since

1:22.9

this issue's been exploding on the scenes recently?

1:26.5

And then how do I do apologetic say online, for example,

1:29.7

or in the family or in the church? It's really those two things that brought it together.

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