Has Christian Apologetics Failed?

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Are popular speakers like Jordan Peterson more effective than apologetics at pointing to the truth of Christianity?

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0:00.0	The Broughton Broughton Boom Boom Boom Boom
0:12.0	Broughton Boom Boom Boom B Badeo-o-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-
0:25.3	Get away Jordan.
0:28.8	I want you to get away Jordan,
0:31.3	Get away Jordan, get away Jordan. Jordan.
0:34.0	Get away.
0:35.0	Jordan.
0:38.0	I want a cross over to see my lord get away.
0:43.0	Dr Craig, this certainly got my attention when I saw the name of this article,
0:47.0	has Christian apologetics failed.
0:50.0	And it's written by Esther O'Reilly of the Young Foggi blog on Pathios.
0:57.0	Let me go ahead and just give a spoiler here, and that is, no, she says, but she thinks that it's misdefined quite often and it's misconstrued to be something
1:08.5	that it's not and so on.
1:10.8	This article has got a big picture of you and a big picture of Jordan Peterson.
1:16.3	What I have noticed in what she talks about here is that a lot of people say, well, look
1:20.6	at this, a Christian apologetics seems to be failing because two non-Christians
1:25.4	these days are being used to bring people back into the fold or bringing people to
1:29.9	Christ a young Jewish man, Ben Shapiro, and Jordan Peterson, you know.
1:36.6	So what gives, why is it that they're having all the success and actually pointing people
1:41.4	to Christianity.
1:42.6	That's what's so strange about it, Bill.
1:45.4	And I have kind of noticed that phenomenon.
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