There has been a recent backlash against apologetics.
Vocal criticism of apologetics has come from some surprising quarters. The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award winner was Myron Penner’s The End of Apologetics, published by Baker Books in America. Penner singles out William Lane Craig for criticism as an example of what is wrong in contemporary apologetics and evangelism.
Two sides of the same coin?
According to Penner, Craig represents the very attitude to reason and rationalism that we should resist, ‘Despite what Christian apologists may tell themselves and others about how much they oppose modern philosophical assumptions or the dominant views of modernity, they nevertheless are in fundamental agreement with modern thinkers about which questions are the important ones, how those questions need to be answered, and why they need answering.’ (p.46) In other words, William Lane Craig has fallen for the same arrogant style of argument that Richard Dawkins uses. They are simply two sides of the same coin.
