Description
Christianity is increasingly caught in a conflict over the nature of truth, reason, revelation, and faith. But what lies beneath this conflict? Rightly understood, many of the theological and cultural movements challenging historic Christianity are shaped by dialectical thinking, a way of viewing reality through contradiction, conflict, and transformation. From modern theology and Marxism to critical theory and progressive Christianity, the dialectical method has repeatedly been used to reinterpret truth, Scripture, human identity, and the Christian faith itself. Christianity is therefore not merely confronting a collection of unrelated controversies. It stands in the crossfire of a deeper intellectual and spiritual struggle between the dialectic and the Logos.
Faith in the Crossfire explains this struggle with clarity and depth. William C. Roach traces the philosophical and theological development of dialectical thought, examines how it operates within contemporary culture and the church, and exposes its consequences for Christian doctrine and practice. He then presents a constructive defense of objective truth, sound reason, divine revelation, biblical authority, and the historic Christian faith. Readers will come away better equipped to recognize the ideas reshaping Christianity, understand where those ideas originated, and defend the truth revealed in Jesus Christ, the eternal Logos.
Endorsements
“Dr. Bill Roach provides perhaps the deepest and most thoroughgoing exploration of the postmodern uprooting of faith available anywhere in print.”
-James Lindsay, Ph.D., Founder of New Discourses
“It is a compelling reminder that Christianity does not endure by accommodation, but by standing fast—grounded in Scripture, faithful to Christ, and unashamed of the truth.”
-Jenna Ellis, Host of Jenna Ellis in the Morning
“Bill Roach has produced a much needed guidebook to our current cultural chaos—and to the life-giving alternative found in historic Christianity.”
-John G. West, Ph.D., Author of Stockholm Syndrome Christianity;
Vice President, Discovery Institute
“A thorough and logical presentation that informs and equips his readers to face the crossfires of secularism, Gnosticism, and Marxism.”
-Judge Phil Ginn, President of Southern Evangelical Seminary
“It may be the most important book you will read this year.”
-Donald T. Williams, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Toccoa Falls College
“Not since the writings of Francis Schaeffer has such a robust cultural defense of Christianity been put into print.”
-Phil Fernandes, Ph.D., Pastor and Past-President of the International Society of Christian Apologetics
