Ken will give an overview of various defenders of the faith during various periods in Church History, starting with the early Christological debates through Augustine to Aquinas and Natural Theology in the Middle Ages. We will look at the challenge of the Enlightenment and Modernity and the answers given by the great defenders of the faith in the 20th century, from G.K. Chesterton to Lewis to Francis Schaeffer to Ravi Zacharias and Tim Keller today, and others along the way. Clearly, we will be limited to broad strokes as we attempt to paint this picture

1. An Apologetics Overview (By century, from 30,000 feet) Ken Daniel, Sept 2010

8. Carl F.H. Henry: God, Revelation, & Authority Francis Schaeffer: The God Who Is There - “FAS’s Big Ideas” G.K.Chesterton: The Everlasting Man C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity Focus: C.S. Lewis 20th Century Challenges Skepticism: Russell, G.B. Shaw, H.G.Wells Scientism/Evolution ... Scopes & Mencken to Gould & Sagan, Atheistic Materialism; Marxism; Freud Liberal Theology: Bultmann, Tillich; (Pietism, anti-intellectualism) Defenders Neo-Orthodoxy: Barth and Brunner, Reinhold & RIchard Niebuhr R.A. Torrey & "The Fundamentals" Evangelical Awakening: Parachurch: InterVarsity, Campus Crusade; Evangelical seminaries, Christianity Today, Academy and Pulpit: Machen, Carl F.H. Henry, John Stott; Society of Christian Philosophers; Apologetic Ministries: L’Abri & Francis Schaeffer, Ligonier & R.C. Sproul Os Guinness, John Warwick Montgomery, Josh McDowell, Charles Colson Public Intellectuals; C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton; Secular Prophets, T.S. Kuhn, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Alan Bloom, Walker Percy, Neil Postman The Modern World: ...from the Industrial Age to the Computer Age

9. Chesterton had more sense than all the other moderns put together; bating, of course, his Christianity. Johnson was one of the few authors whom I felt I could trust utterly; curiously enough, he had the same kink. On the other hand, those writers who did not suffer from religion and with whom in theory my sympathy ought to have been complete -- Shaw and Wells and Mill and Gibbon and Voltaire -- all seemed a little thin… Surprised by Joy Chapt 14: Checkmate Samuel Johnson 1700s The Literary Club G.K. Chesterton The Everlasting Man (1925) C.S. Lewis - from his autobiography Back to 20 th Century

10. Carl F.H. Henry: God, Revelation, & Authority Francis Schaeffer: The God Who Is There - “FAS’s Big Ideas” G.K.Chesterton: The Everlasting Man C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity 20th Century Challenges Skepticism: Russell, G.B. Shaw, H.G.Wells Scientism/Evolution ... Scopes & Mencken to Gould & Sagan, Atheistic Materialism; Marxism; Freud Liberal Theology: Bultmann, Tillich; (Pietism, anti-intellectualism) Defenders Neo-Orthodoxy: Barth and Brunner, Reinhold & RIchard Niebuhr R.A. Torrey & "The Fundamentals" Evangelical Awakening: Parachurch: InterVarsity, Campus Crusade; Evangelical seminaries, Christianity Today, Academy and Pulpit: Machen, Carl F.H. Henry, John Stott; Society of Christian Philosophers; Alvin Plantinga Apologetic Ministries: L’Abri & Francis Schaeffer, Ligonier & R.C. Sproul Os Guinness, John Warwick Montgomery, Josh McDowell, Charles Colson Public Intellectuals; C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton; Secular Prophets, T.S. Kuhn, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Alan Bloom, Walker Percy, Neil Postman The Modern World: ...from the Industrial Age to the Computer Age