Why I Don’t Always Like Traditional Apologetics

I think this quote from The Teaching of Christ by Lawler, Lawler, and Weuri sums up holistic conversion nicely, and explains why mere argumentation is ineffective in engendering true conversion:

People normally need good reasons to clear their way toward faith. Certainly there is no conflict between intelligence and faith. Human reasoning alone, however, is not sufficient to establish personal faith. No one can be driven to personal faith by dialectics, for faith involves believing God, not complex argumentation. But intelligence can stimulate the pursuit of personal faith.

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One Response to “Why I Don’t Always Like Traditional Apologetics”

  1. Father Stephanos, O.S.B. says:
    May 4, 2006 at 12:27 am

    That book served as a foundation for my adult faith. It has been one of the two books I have most often recommended to people. I have a little more to say about it on one of my blog entries.
    http://monkallover.blogspot.com/2006/05/building-blocks.html

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