I haven’t read the Blanchard book. I’ll have to take a look.

I read “The Certainty of the Faith” and for the most part enjoyed it. I thought is was broadly presuppositional and not as thoroughly reformed as it could have been, but overall a good book.

Thanks for the pointer, I’ll check it out.

Mike,

Thanks for the comments. I’m glad you’re finding The Battle Belongs to the Lord helpful. Related to your earlier comment, I’d listen to the middle part of Christ the Center 104: Listener Co-Hosts when we spoke with Gabe Fluher. Gabe is an associate pastor that works with youth and has had an interesting experience teaching and using apologetics with young people.

I now have the book – The Battle Belongs to The Lord – and can already see it answers my previous questions. This looks to be a most helpful book. It could also be useful for group study, and I am going to approach our leadership about this.

I just wanted to comment on the very inadequate way I put this: ‘seem to know just about everything.’ I want to say I am not in any way whatsoever implying that you are a bunch of ‘know it alls’. Camden often says ‘I did not know that’. What I meant was, I feel acutely my own lack of knowledge and understanding in so many areas.

I very much enjoy the broadcasts and do actually learn a lot. Thanks again for all your work.

Mike

This was a very helpful program for me. I’m just slightly getting my feet wet with presupositionalism and have ordered The Battle Belongs to The Lord. I can see (hear) how you all enjoy discussing apologetics and seem to know just about everything. I’m not a seminarian so how can apologetics help me when talking with my mechanic, plumber, shopkeeper or a highschool teacher. Does apologeticts have any value outside of the seminary or is it not really for the people in the pew and only for philosophers.

Thanks for the programs, much appreciated.

Mike

Who wouldn’t? Just as long as he doesn’t take his Van Til books out on a date. That would be a little bit over the line.

Interesting. I picked this one up a few months ago, but haven’t made my way through all of it yet. The Psychology of Religion is another interesting, yet oft forgotten, one from Dr. Van Til.

And yes, Kyle does like to read apologetics books over a nice, candlelit Italian dinner.

By the way, I would throw into the mix “The Reformed Pastor and Modern Thought.” This is where Van Tillianism came home for me.

Lee Strobel’s strength I think (I’ve read Case for Christ and Case for a Creator) is pointing you to other sources. He interviews a bunch of different people — now, go read what those people have written.

Van Til’s Defense of the Faith is a class notes and syllabus pulled together and published, eh? How many other times have we seen strong books like this? I can think of Vos’s Biblical Theology and MGK’s Kingdom Prologue just off the top of my head.

Stobel would not be on my list of general apologetic works, either. But, if someone was looking for answers on a particular evidential issue, I would turn those guys who have done the work in these areas (Habermas, et. al). I certainly don’t disagree with Tipton’s article on Acts 17, I believe the meaning needs to accompany the event.

Keep up the good work.

A very good program would be if you guys would discuss one of the chapters in that book titled simply The Transcendental Argument, by Sean Choi. Choi critiques Bahnsen argument in his debate with Stein.