Yes, another lecture! This one is titled “Asking the Right Questions”. It deals a lot with apologetics and its role in Christian proclamation amongst other things. I really appreciate how he positions himself between traditional apologetics and the Barthian rejection of apologetics.
Apologetics, Audio/Video, N.T. Wright
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“That would be a minefield from which there is no escape.” Hilarious.
Refreshing. Definitely have NT Wright on my summer reading list.
Thanks for the post Brian!
@Jeremy: I find myself in the same middle ground as Wright as well. I am not anti-apologetics, but I don’t think we can logic someone into following Christ. Wright is refreshing.
I’m right where you are, Brian, right where you are…
I think Apologetics is often useful in showing what one as a Christian doesn’t believe. Too often there are misconceptions about Christianity from outsiders, and I think apologetics often enough clears them up.
You know, part of me is leaning toward an apologetic using the Trinity. I think so much is understandable about life, love, and all of reality when we presuppose triune eternality.
I question whether Wright is worried about being labeled in the Apologist camp. The reason being is that it seems almost counter-intuitive to assume he’s not an apologist. I mean, look at Resurrection of the Son of God. Though entirely not an apologetic work, but for the most part it is.
And at 30 minutes in, he for the most part addresses my critique I said about the RSG.
@Daniel: There is a sense in which Wright does do apologetics, but I think he wants to differentiate himself from those who have more foundationalist presuppositions like Craig, Moreland, et al.
@Brian:
Yeah, I see what you’re saying. I myself am a bit of a post-modernity child. I really can’t buy into the naive realism that many apologists uphold.
@Daniel: I would say that I am a child of the postmodern mindset as well. Of course, this doesn’t mean that I buy into the whole scheme, but rather that I have a lower view of human epistemology which I see as the movement’s greatest insight.
@Brian: That’s where I’m at. I had a revelation around a year and a half ago that yes, often these scholars are well researched, but they’re still none the less just as human as I am.
It’s comforting, I think. We’re all in this journey together.
Also, it is like Michael Licona said in his recent book: we don’t have to fall for the “all or nothing” fallacy. We can “know” something without knowing it fully or completely. I think some forms of postmodernity were over skeptical simply because it was a pendulum swing against modernities blind pride. Somewhere in the middle is best.