Navigating Crossroads. Reimagining Christian Apologetics between Tradition and Contemporary Public Discourse

Why apologetics, and why now?
We put the question to ourselves before we put it to anyone else. In the Western academy, the word has for some time been weighed and found wanting, and that verdict is increasingly heard here too, in a country where Christian identification remains widespread. For many who hear it, apologetics now names a confidence about what can be proved that few people any longer share. Has postmodern criticism not warned theologians against pressing upon the world a single total account of reality and of how a life is to be lived, in a culture that has learned to distrust anyone who claims to possess one? And if the warning holds, is apologetics not precisely the discipline that ought by now to have quietly closed its doors, leaving the church to speak in some other way, or not at all?