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This was the best essay so far by Alan Noble on "Posture".

"Faithful cultural apologetics requires virtue: Prudence to know when to speak, Justice to label idols is false, temperance to know how far to press, courage to speak hard truths, faith in God for the outcome, hope for repentance, and love for the culture (people) or person we are engaging with." (71-72)

"...it is evident by surveying three prominent apologists within the history of the discipline that what this volume has labeled cultural apologetics should be seen as an apologetic retrieval rather than a novel invention." (Joshua Chatraw)

Great chapter surveying the similarities between Augustine, Pascal and C. S. Lewis's apologetic impulses and "cultural apologetics."

"...the Bible itself is the apologetic. It's the shape of the biblical story, expressed most simply and sparsely in the four moments of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation, and also a rich, multi-layered, and exceedingly complex story as we delve into its details. It's the story of reality, the story of the universe in which we actually happen to live, that does the apologetic heavy lifting." (Chris Watkin)

"The church before Christendom wasn't propped up by cultural Christianity, and Christians in many parts of the world today walk with God just fine with no need for cultural crutches. Yes, Christendom may be an asset to Christianity in terms of plausibility structures, making it a live wire in a sociological sense. But theologically we must never assume cultural Christianity supplies the electricity." (Trevin Wax)