particularly narrow-sighted. The church has always used a variety of instruments for persuading its culture to notice the church and thereby gain a hearing for these evidences. More importantly, he argues that in our present culture the church cannot even begin to speak about credibility until it establishes plausibility. By elevating persuasion and plausibility over evidences and credibility, Stackhouse is reversing Aristotle’s preference for logos over ethos and pathos. In a postmodern cultural