Room: B254
Leader: Brandon Knight

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The class will serve as a precursor to apologetics, with a major focus on communication between Christians and those outside the church.
In our post-Christian society, thoughtful Christians are considering again how to engage the dominant culture as a minority, a counterpublic, amid varying perceptions and misperceptions. In this timely book, Timothy Muehlhoff and Rick Langer ask what our interactions with the dominant cultural ethos should look like. How might we be persuasive and civil at the same time? How should we respond to those who ridicule and caricature us? How can we challenge the beliefs of other communities with love and respect? Muehlhoff and Langer present a model for cultural engagement that integrates communication theory, theology, and Scripture. Now more than ever, Christians need a compelling vision of public engagement that is both shrewd and gracious.