For the glory of the earth, for the glory of the skies,

for the love which from our birth,

over and around us lights.

Lord of all to thee ely raves miss our him a grateful brave.

Well, Bill, let's look at a review of a recent Five Views book on natural theology written

by Louis Marcos of Houston Christian University.

He writes, quote, in their struggle to make the God of the Bible real, rational, and relevant to modern

and postmodern people, many, if not most, have adopted some form of CS Lewis's two-step apologetical method.

First, establish common ground with secular non-believers who do not recognize the authority

of scripture, the claims of religion, or their own personal need for salvation and use that common

ground to point to the existence of God and second move from the existence of a good

God who created the universe to the God of the Bible

by appealing to a wide range of sources including the Bible, the resurrection,

and Christian philosophy and theology end of quote he then points out that this was Paul's basic method in act 17 any comments on that two-step approach, Bill?

Yes, I think it's misleading to attribute this to C.S. Lewis.

This is the classic approach to Christian apologetics, Christian apologetics.

Christian apologetics is composed of natural theology,

which are arguments for the existence of God,

and then Christian evidences, which are evidences that the God proved by natural theology

has specially revealed himself in Jesus. This is the method followed by Thomas Aquinas and by William

Paley and their apologetics. So I think this is a classic approach.

We'd like to urge listeners to get a copy of your and

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