APB Fool’s Talk(Os Guinness)

 In our post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more  secular and private life infinitely more diverse. Yet many Christians  still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics.  Most of these methods assume that people are open, interested and needy  for spiritual insight when increasingly most people are not. Our urgent  need, then, is the capacity to persuade—to make a convincing case for  the gospel to people who are not interested in it.

 In his magnum opus, Os Guinness offers a comprehensive presentation of  the art and power of creative persuasion. Christians have often relied  on proclaiming and preaching, protesting and picketing. But we are  strikingly weak in persuasion—the ability to talk to people who are  closed to what we are saying. Actual persuasion requires more than a  one-size-fits-all approach. Guinness notes, “Jesus never spoke to two  people the same way, and neither should we.”

 Following the tradition of Erasmus, Pascal, G. K. Chesterton, C. S.  Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge and Peter Berger, Guinness demonstrates how  apologetic persuasion requires both the rational and the imaginative.  Persuasion is subversive, turning the tables on listeners’ assumptions  to surprise them with signals of transcendence and the credibility of  the gospel.

 This book is the fruit of forty years of thinking, honed in countless  talks and discussions at many of the leading universities and  intellectual centers of the world. Discover afresh the persuasive power  of Christian witness from one of the leading apologists and thinkers of  our era.

 Product Details
ISBN:9780830844487
Publisher: IVP Books