An Introduction to Christian Apologetics
Exploring, Explaining, and Establishing the Gospel in Light of Its Organic Character
- Apologetics
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2026
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Publisher's Description
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851–1921) has long been considered by many to be America’s most formidable biblical scholar and theologian and its stoutest defender of the Christian faith. Yet, his view and practice of apologetics has been routinely misunderstood and misrepresented. David P. Smith’s Introduction to Christian Apologetics seeks to help remedy this by upholding Warfield’s perspective on apologetics as the latter understood it in light of its organic relationship to all Christian doctrine. The organic union of apologetics to Christian discipleship and evangelism is explained and a fresh presentation made on how Christian doctrine is its own defense and offense. Systematic and practical theology come together in a powerful and provocative way in this groundbreaking work.
Endorsements (3)
“Dr. David P. Smith offers a thoughtful, Warfieldian vision of apologetics as organically amalgamated to the Christian life. While presuppositionalists may want to refine certain emphases, this work commendably resists abstraction and calls us back to the living, Christ-centered nature of all true theology.”
“At the heart of [Smith’s] approach is Warfield’s view that apologetics must operate according to the ‘organic union’ of human life and thought. In short, Christian apologetics is never merely intellectual or otherwise reductionist but is holistic. I enthusiastically commend this clear, intelligent, lively, practical, and—most importantly—God-glorifying work. In fact, I find it a breath of fresh air within our current apologetically stale and acrimonious atmosphere.”
“David Smith’s Introduction to Christian Apologetics is a compelling exploration of how the organic motif is related to the calling of the Christian apologist. . . . By focusing on the work of B. B. Warfield, Smith challenges reigning orthodoxies in the historiography of the American Evangelical experience, and in so doing he retrieves a thoughtful proposal for how Christians can engage the world in which we live without accommodating the world in which we live. I highly recommend this thoughtful and insightful volume.”
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