Postmodern Apologetics?:Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy: Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy

Introduction: The “Death of God” and the Demise of Natural Theology

The introduction lays out the history of apologetics from the time of the early Christians to the contemporary era. It examines the demise of the project of "natural theology" in modernity and lays out the contemporary situation in regard to questions of the divine. It also introduces the shift toward renewed thinking about God and religious experience in the endeavors of "phenomenology" and "hermeneutics." It explains what these endeavors are and how they might prove useful for thinking about God, while also qualifying what sort of thinking that might turn out to be.