Apologetics and Preaching: Lessons from the Preaching of Peter and Paul

Nathan Daniel Shannon

doi:10.51688/VC9.2.2022.art4

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Nathan Daniel Shannon Westminster Theological Seminary

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apologetics., preaching, Paul, Peter

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This paper examines the relationship between apologetics and preaching in three sermons by the apostles Peter and Paul, and finds that, for the apostles, apologetics and preaching are not separate disciplines but inseparable and interdependent components of gospel ministry and the life of the church. Taking apostolic preaching as paradigmatic for ministry and Christian life today, this paper argues for a retrieval of this organic understanding, on the one hand, of apologetics that aims toward and follows the structure of gospel proclamation, and, on the other, of preaching which features vindication of the whole of counsel of God against unbelief in its various forms.

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Nathan Daniel Shannon, Westminster Theological Seminary

Nathan D. Shannon (Ph.D., Vrije University, Amsterdam) serves as Adjunct Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Theology and Associate Director of Global Curriculum and Assessment at Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, PA. He is the author of Absolute Person and Moral Experience (Bloomsbury 2022), Shalom and the Ethics of Belief (Pickwick 2015), and articles in The Scottish Journal of Theology, Westminster Theological Journal, Mission Studies, Feminist Theology, Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, and other journals. He is also the editor of P&R’s Great Thinker series. Nate taught systematic theology from 2015 to 2021 at Torch Trinity Graduate University in Seoul, S. Korea.

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Lessons from the Preaching of Peter and Paul

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