Apologetics at the Cross

Joshua Chatraw (PhD, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as the director for New City Fellows and the Resident Theologian at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. His books include Apologetics at the Cross, Cultural Engagement, Truth in a Culture of Doubt, and Truth Matters. He is a fellow with the Center for Pastor Theologians and has served in both pastoral and academic posts during his ministry.    Mark D. Allen (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, D.Min. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) serves as the Chair of Liberty University's Biblical and Theological Studies Department and the Director of the Greek Program. His Ph.D. from Notre Dame focused on Christianity and Judaism in antiquity and his dissertation dealt with Old Testament critical scholarship. Mark brings twenty years of church planting and pastoral experience.  

Part 1---Introduction
Chapter 1---An Invitation to the Practice of Apologetics
Chapter 2---An Apologetics of Glory Versus an Apologetics of the Cross
Chapter 3---The Pastor as an Apologist: The Need to Recover the Past
Chapter 4---The Need for Apologetics: A Lesson from the Trenches

Part 2---Approaches: Historical, Contemporary, and Biblical

Chapter 5---Where to Begin? A Survey of the Various Approaches
Chapter 6---A Way Forward
Chapter 7---Getting on with the Task: A Lesson from the Trenches

Part 3---Knowing Your Context

Chapter 8---The Western World
Chapter 9---The Rest of the World
Chapter 10---Why Knowing Your Context is Vital: A Lesson from the Trenches

Part 4---Apologetics as Loving Your Neighbor: Issues of the Heart and Mind

Chapter 11---The Importance of Tone: Loving our Neighbor or Winning an Argument?
Chapter 12---Dealing with Defeat
Chapter 13---Building a Case
Chapter 14---Loving Others Through Apologetics: A Lesson from the Trenches

Part 5---More Lesson from the Trenches

Chapter 15---A Survey of How to Answers the Most Commonly Asked Questions
Chapter 16---Summary and Conclusion