Presuppositional Apologetic Method

Chicago Research Paper

Introduction

Apologetics is the reasoned defense of the Christian religion. Christianity is a faith, to be sure; but there are reasons for this faith, Faith is not to be confused with reason; but neither is it to be separated from it.

But some would say that if there are reasons, there is no room for faith; if there is faith, reasons are impertinence. One must choose, some say, between a religion of faith and a religion of reason; one cannot have both. Henry Dodwell, Jr., expressed this anti apologetic view in 1740 in his book Christianity Not Founded ...