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by Stuart C. Hackett (Author)
""The Christian world view,"" contends the author, ""both needs and embodies a thoroughgoing, rational apologetic as a manifestation of its relevance to the contemporary mind. . . . Christian faith should be defended in terms of criteria which center in rational objectivity as the norm of truth and evaluation."" The author, who stands in the tradition of Aquinas, Butler, Orr, and Tennant, deals first with the problem of epistemological approach (part 1). Then he tackles the apologetic of natural revelation, first setting forth the inadequacy of every major alternate to rational empiricism (part 2), then demonstrating the existence of the God of theism (part 3). Each chapter is well outlined, and these outlines appear together in an ""Analytical Table of Contents."" This feature, as well as a bibliography and index, makes this a useful textbook for courses in apologetics and philosophy.
Author Biography
Stuart C. Hackett spent his career teaching at Christian colleges and universities, including Trinity International University, from which he retired in 1991. He is the author of Oriental Philosophy: A Westerner's Guide to Eastern Thought (1979), The Reconstruction of the Christian Revelation Claim: A Philosophical and Critical Apologetic (1984), and The Rediscoveryof the Highest Good (2009). He is coeditor with George I. Mavrodes of Problems and Perspectives in the Philosophy of Religion (1967).
