Finally, hope identifies the orienting posture of the Christian apologist: full of hope that God is present and active in the world, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and that the Holy Spirit is bringing creation to consummation. Apologetics, after all, has to do with speaking about hope (1 Peter 3:15). In our contemporary situation it means doing so in response to the particular questions that are being asked. A well-known example of an apologetic of hope can be seen in J.