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Book SynopsisChristianity Today 2024 Book Award Finalist (Apologetics/Evangelism) Southwestern Journal of Theology 2023 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Worldview and Apologetics) What can we learn from Augustine about apologetics? This book shows how Augustine defended the faith in late antiquity and how his approach to engaging the culture has great significance for the apologetic task today. Joshua Chatraw and Mark Allen, coauthors of the award-winning Apologetics at the Cross (an Outreach magazine and Gospel Coalition Resource of the Year), recover Augustine's mature apologetic voice to address the challenges facing today's church. The Augustine Way offers a compelling argument for Christian witness that is rooted in tradition and engaged with contemporary culture. It focuses on Augustine's best-known works, Confessions and The City of God, to retrieve his scriptural and ecclesial approach for a holistic apologetic witness. This book will be useful for students as well as for pastors, church leaders, and practitioners of Christian apologetics. It puts pastors and churches back at the center of apologetics, transcending popular contemporary methods with a view to a more effective witness in post-Christendom.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Time to Make Room at the Table
Part 1: Going Back for the Future
1. A Prodigal Son Returns Home . . . as an Apologist
2. An Augustinian Assessment of Contemporary Apologetics
Part 2: An Augustinian Vision for Today
3. A Renewed Posture
4. An Ecclesial Pilgrimage of Hope
5. A Therapeutic Approach
Conclusion: The Return of the Bishop
Index
