Comments on: Blogroll: Quality of Christian Apologetics

By: Henry Neufeld

Henry Neufeld — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:27:25 +0000

You have to remind me. I thought you were on my blogroll.

Now fantasy has encountered reality, and you are on my blogroll!

Never underestimate my ability to forget….

By: TLTB

TLTB — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:29:30 +0000

Hey, now, my blog’s been around longer than Evang. Dialogue. What I gots to do to get on yer blogroll?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:27:42 +0000

Hi Henry,

Excellent post. I especially liked where you said, “I like works on apologetics that show some struggle with the issues (both posts I reference make good recommendations) without claiming to finally solve all of the problems…It�s more like a theme park ride than it is like a train ride with a fixed destination.” I like this sort of work too. I’m much more apt to be satisfied with someone who acknowledges a problem and admits they don’t have an answer (but doesn’t lose faith in God over it) than with someone who makes up some bullcrap answer in order to ease their cognitive dissonance. I think it takes great strength and wisdom to live with question marks in our minds.

How would one go about making a request for a review copy? I’m interested. Maybe email me at jesusdied4u_01 at yahoo.

-Chris

By: Henry Neufeld

Henry Neufeld — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:21:09 +0000

I forgot to mention that I will send free copies to you (or anyone with a blog or who reviews for any media) who will commit to review the book, with no obligations to make the review good or to how long it must be or anything else. I’ll do that as long as the number of requests is reasonable. Thus far they have been.

In fact, since I’ve found that copies of the books I publish are my best publicity, considering my authors are not generally famous, I’ve established the policy of being extremely open with review copies of anything I publish.

By: Henry Neufeld

Henry Neufeld — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:15:28 +0000

First, I must note that because I edited the series does not mean it expresses my own view. I created my publishing company to publish material in the "broad center" of Christianity. But having said that, I believe you would find the contents a bit "in your face" for your tastes, based on the authors you have recommended, and those you have criticized. Elgin is considerably less strident in tone than Josh McDowell, and I believe substantially more nuanced and accurate. Yet he is defending something at the conservative end of my range. I may sound like I'm trying to "unsell" something I publish, but actually I'm also concerned that people understand just what the books actually are. You can find some of Elgin's writing at his consider.org web site and his blog.

By: dopderbeck

dopderbeck — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:15:38 +0000

Thanks for the link! So I’m curious — how does the “Considering Christianity” series you edited handle question of scripture and science? The subject headings seem a little “in your face…”