Apologetics.com Radio Show

Apologetics.com Radio Show

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Apologetics.com Radio Show episodes

  • Apologetics and Economics
    How we live matters. That applies to our personal witness of Christ but just as much in our witness as citizens and actors in the community. As such, the way that the Bible talks about the world isn't reducible to the rudiments of theology and the way of salvation. Scripture speaks to the world, the sciences and to the way we live our lives. We would expect the Bible to say something meaningful about such subjects as ethics, law and economics. If the Bible teaches communism or a preference for totalitarian dictatorship that says very different things about God than if it teaches human rights, peaceful co-existence and the basis for the free market. What kind of a God he is determines what kind of people he expects us to be and what kinds of laws and communities he would like us to have. Fishing out these deeper things of faith and practice isn't easy but there should be some fundamental principles that are available to the interested student of the Christian religion. More importantly for our case, is there an apologetical value to a Christian understanding of Economics? And what might that look like? CN
    1 hr 57 min
  • Apologetics and Economics
    How we live matters. That applies to our personal witness of Christ but just as much in our witness as citizens and actors in the community. As such, the way that the Bible talks about the world isn't reducible to the rudiments of theology and the way of salvation. Scripture speaks to the world, the sciences and to the way we live our lives. We would expect the Bible to say something meaningful about such subjects as ethics, law and economics. If the Bible teaches communism or a preference for totalitarian dictatorship that says very different things about God than if it teaches human rights, peaceful co-existence and the basis for the free market. What kind of a God he is determines what kind of people he expects us to be and what kinds of laws and communities he would like us to have. Fishing out these deeper things of faith and practice isn't easy but there should be some fundamental principles that are available to the interested student of the Christian religion. More importantly for our case, is there an apologetical value to a Christian understanding of Economics? And what might that look like? CN
    1 hr 57 min
  • What Can Christians Learn From Muslims

    Christians claim they have the truth but do they live according to them? Muslims also claim they have the truth. When we take a look at how each of these faith traditions practice their religion it might surprise many that Muslims can help Christians be better saints.

    Much of the material in this show is taken from Peter Kreeft's book titled "Between Allah and Jesus: What Christians Can Learn From Muslims." In this show we look at certain practices of Muslims that Christians ought to be more fervent in but are not. In identifying these could Christians be shamed into being better saints? Special guests: Jacob Daniel and Lenny Esposito.

    1 hr 57 min
  • The Apologetic Value of Political Engagement

    In this episode of the Apologetics.com Show our panel led by Chris will talk about Bernie, Hillary, Trump and the once in a life time opportunity to keep an eye on Russia from a Trump Tower Alaska casino - we might need to build a wall to keep out Canada but what did they ever give us besides Hockey and bears?


    Special guest is John Snyder JD, MA.

    1 hr 57 min
  • The Apologetic Value of Political Engagement

    In this episode of the Apologetics.com Show our panel led by Chris will talk about Bernie, Hillary, Trump and the once in a life time opportunity to keep an eye on Russia from a Trump Tower Alaska casino - we might need to build a wall to keep out Canada but what did they ever give us besides Hockey and bears?


    Special guest is John Snyder JD, MA.

    1 hr 57 min
  • Apologetics and Worldview

    What is the worldview of for example, Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris, and how does it inform the way they do Atheism?


    For many years, largely due to the Enlightenment bias toward a detached and objective world apprehensible through unaffected reason and open to empirical investigation, Christian apologetics overlooked the importance of perspective, cultural and historical situated-ness in advancing the apologetic agenda. Perhaps it was not so much an overt disregard for the careful identification of a person's interpretation of the world as much as that the value of such was taken for granted. There was an assumption that all invitees to the theological, philosophical or scientific project were playing by the same rules if they were "serious" thinkers and those outside of our peculiar construct were often dismissed out of hand. While it might be true that there is one real world, one real logic, one real epistemology and one real and final truth those are claims that call for substantiation.

    First, it is no longer taken for granted. What was once granted (largely supplied through the theological investment of a common revelatory source giving a sufficient grounding to the project of knowledge and interpretation) is now up for grabs. Things formerly viewed common sense now need to be proven or at least intellectually defended prior to their use as a basis for something else. "Common sense" is no longer common.

    Second, the idea of "pre-evangelism" through apologetics, philosophical, scientific and theological has perhaps never been more important than it is today. Christianity doesn't work just just any old way - and its presumptions and presuppositions themselves need to be identified and defended and made apprehensible and coherent to the mind of the hearer.

    Much of the failure of Christian apologetics in the midst of contemporary culture might be from the lack of sufficient understanding of how far the mind and thought of the other might be from our own biblically or theologically informed point of view.

    The days require a fielding out of our apologetic agenda toward ethics, politics, aesthetics, the arts, economics, psychology, sociology and international development as much as the common end of "defending the faith". No one person, as much as we value a good and well rounded education, is themselves sufficient to such an overall task and so the apologetic endeavor has become one in which differing areas of engagement have largely been overtaken by area experts well suited to the focus of a given field, but if we loose those common aspirations that hold together the whole we can lose our purpose. Can "apologetics" become inhibitory toward that which is its supposed end and purpose for being?

    When we take the apologetic agenda to be as an aid and support for evangelism and the perseverance of the Christian through this life, along with answering and encouraging the unbelieving world, an understanding of the importance of worldview, ours and theirs, is inevitably at the front of our interest.

    1 hr 57 min
  • Apologetics and Worldview

    What is the worldview of for example, Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris, and how does it inform the way they do Atheism?


    For many years, largely due to the Enlightenment bias toward a detached and objective world apprehensible through unaffected reason and open to empirical investigation, Christian apologetics overlooked the importance of perspective, cultural and historical situated-ness in advancing the apologetic agenda. Perhaps it was not so much an overt disregard for the careful identification of a person's interpretation of the world as much as that the value of such was taken for granted. There was an assumption that all invitees to the theological, philosophical or scientific project were playing by the same rules if they were "serious" thinkers and those outside of our peculiar construct were often dismissed out of hand. While it might be true that there is one real world, one real logic, one real epistemology and one real and final truth those are claims that call for substantiation.

    First, it is no longer taken for granted. What was once granted (largely supplied through the theological investment of a common revelatory source giving a sufficient grounding to the project of knowledge and interpretation) is now up for grabs. Things formerly viewed common sense now need to be proven or at least intellectually defended prior to their use as a basis for something else. "Common sense" is no longer common.

    Second, the idea of "pre-evangelism" through apologetics, philosophical, scientific and theological has perhaps never been more important than it is today. Christianity doesn't work just just any old way - and its presumptions and presuppositions themselves need to be identified and defended and made apprehensible and coherent to the mind of the hearer.

    Much of the failure of Christian apologetics in the midst of contemporary culture might be from the lack of sufficient understanding of how far the mind and thought of the other might be from our own biblically or theologically informed point of view.

    The days require a fielding out of our apologetic agenda toward ethics, politics, aesthetics, the arts, economics, psychology, sociology and international development as much as the common end of "defending the faith". No one person, as much as we value a good and well rounded education, is themselves sufficient to such an overall task and so the apologetic endeavor has become one in which differing areas of engagement have largely been overtaken by area experts well suited to the focus of a given field, but if we loose those common aspirations that hold together the whole we can lose our purpose. Can "apologetics" become inhibitory toward that which is its supposed end and purpose for being?

    When we take the apologetic agenda to be as an aid and support for evangelism and the perseverance of the Christian through this life, along with answering and encouraging the unbelieving world, an understanding of the importance of worldview, ours and theirs, is inevitably at the front of our interest.

    1 hr 57 min
  • Race, Reason and Revelation
    Race, Reason and Revelation: a conversation of the issues of race, culture and the mission of the church. Christopher Neiswonger leads the discussion with special guests Lindsay Brooks and Pastor Lance Lewis.
    1 hr 57 min
  • Apologetics and Youth
    Christopher Neiswonger and special guest, Larry Mauro talk about the importance of reaching out to youth to help them understand and defend the faith.
    1 hr 56 min
  • Race, Reason and Revelation
    Race, Reason and Revelation: a conversation of the issues of race, culture and the mission of the church. Christopher Neiswonger leads the discussion with special guests Lindsay Brooks and Pastor Lance Lewis.
    1 hr 57 min

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