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Moral Apologetics for Contemporary Christians: Pushing Back Against Cultural and Religious Critics is unavailable, but you can change that!

Have Christians grown accustomed to those who defame the Church? Whether it’s a best-selling author who claims “religion poisons everything” or an atheist comedian whose punch lines aren’t hassled by the burden of proof, foes of the faith continue to declare Christianity morally deficient without much resistance. In Moral Apologetics for Contemporary Christians, Mark Coppenger mixes compelling...

The problem was that “love in the kairos” turned easily into licentiousness and expediency. All sorts of moral slippage can be justified in the name of love. And slip Tillich did; or perhaps it was the other way around—that he needed to craft verbal cover for the slippage that was already happening. At Union Theological Seminary in New York City, Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr “had been the best of friends in the 1930s.” But their relations were cooling even during the war and in the postwar years