Contending for the Faith
I had the rare opportunity to attend a Lutheran Apologetics conference this past weekend at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Yes, that’s right—a Lutheran Apologetics conference. I enjoyed the conference speakers quite a bit, but I didn’t sleep very well the night before, so I almost fell asleep during a couple of the afternoon sessions.
I found the speakers to be pretty good. I was keeping notes on Twitter of the history of Christian apologetics, but the battery on my iPod touch was getting low, so I had to put a halt to that. Although I’m primarily interested in dealing with the threat of atheism to Christianity, I think radical, fundamentalist Islam poses a much greater threat to Christians in the short term. There was a pretty good speaker named Sam Shamoun from Answering-Islam.org.
One of my favorite sessions though was Dr. Angus Menuge’s talk on the failures of atheism: “Exposing the Materialist Delusion”. I especially like how he used the atheists’ own words against them. Basically, their arguments are self-destructing. I don’t have the words verbatim, so I’ll refrain from quoting here. I am going to ask Dr. Menuge for a copy of his presentation though, and will follow up on this.
I was wondering whether you had received a copy of the presentation yet?