Pulpit Apologetics: A Christ-Centered Apologetic for Gospel Proclamation

Preaching and apologetics were never meant to be strangers.

• How should apologetics shape the pulpit?
• How do we expose unbelief while exalting the sufficiency of Christ?
• How do we preach sermons that both commend the gospel persuasively and confront unbelief faithfully?

For too long, preaching and the defense of the faith have been treated as separate callings—one for heralding truth, the other for answering objections. But in the New Testament, they are tied at the hip: proclamation carries its own persuasion, and apologetics flows through the veins of gospel preaching.

In Pulpit Apologetics, Dr. William Robert Edwards draws on the theological vision of Cornelius Van Til to show how apologetics flows naturally from Christ-centered proclamation. Rather than seeing apologetics as a bolt-on argument or academic exercise, Edwards demonstrates that true persuasion comes through pressing the claims of Christ upon the conscience in the very act of preaching.

This book is for preachers, seminarians, and church leaders who long to press the crown rights of Christ with clarity, boldness, and persuasion in an age of skepticism and unbelief.