An Introduction to Christian Apologetics: Exploring, Explaining, and Establishing the Gospel in Light of Its Organic Character - Paperback

by David P. Smith (Author)

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851-1921) has long been considered by many to be America's most formidable biblical scholar and theologian and its stoutest defender of the Christian faith. Yet, his view and practice of apologetics has been routinely misunderstood and misrepresented. David P. Smith's Introduction to Christian Apologetics seeks to help remedy this by upholding Warfield's perspective on apologetics as the latter understood it in light of its organic relationship to all Christian doctrine. The organic union of apologetics to Christian discipleship and evangelism is explained and a fresh presentation made on how Christian doctrine is its own defense and offense. Systematic and practical theology come together in a powerful and provocative way in this groundbreaking work.

Author Biography

David P. Smith pastors Covenant Fellowship ARP Church in Kernersville, North Carolina, teaches historical theology at Erskine Seminary in Due West, South Carolina, and has taught in Christian high schools for thirty years. He is author of B. B. Warfield's Scientifically Constructive Theological Scholarship (Wipf & Stock, 2011), co-author of Old School, New Clothes: The Cultural Blindness of Christian Education (Wipf & Stock, 2011), and edited and contributed to New Perspectives on Old Princeton, 1812-1929 (2024).